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#15 - Septembre 2014
DossierCOHESION POLICY REFORMEDBenefi ting all EU regions
EUROPE & BEYOND I President-elect Juncker’s priorities
OUR STORIES I Internal Communication & Staff Engagement Awards 2014
GENERATIONS I Supporting Ukraine
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DIGIT organised bythe Directorate-General for InformaticsEuropean Commission
DIGIT’s annual internal conference
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other EU institutions and agencies.
digitalnow
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CONTRIBUTEURS
Rédacteur en chef: Zach Hester Tél. :02 296 9617 - Secrétaire de rédaction: Dominique Labourdette
Rédaction: Matteo Manzonetto, Michael Scheerer - Stagiaire: Sabrina Fredj, Alice Siniscalchi
Mise en page & Cend en ligne: Marcelo Contreras - Courrier des lecteurs: Eimear O’Kelly
Commission en direct est édité par l’unité de Communication, DG HR D.3 Chef d’unité: Norman Jardine
Adresse : CE-SC11, 01/18 Télécopieur: 02 299 92 85
Courrier des lecteurs: [email protected]
Envoi de la publication aux pensionnés: [email protected] ISSN : 1830-5598 - Cette publication n’engage pas juridiquement la Commission.
ACCÈS À COMMISSION EN DIRECT EN LIGNE
Personnel actif: http://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu OP et retraités: https://myintracomm-ext.ec.europa.euAutres institutions et agences (également EEAS): http://myintracomm.ec.testa.eu
Rédacteur en chef: Zach Hester Tél. : 02 296 9617 – Secrétaire de rédaction: Dominique Labourdette
Rédaction: Matteo Manzonetto, Michael Scheerer, Jessica Bosseaux – Stagiaires: Mathilde Maughan, Stefan Villanueva Peramo
Mise en page & Cend en ligne: Marcelo Contreras
Commission en direct est édité par l’unité de Communication, DG HR D.3 Chef d’unité: Norman Jardine
Adresse: CE-SC11, 01/18 Télécopieur: 02 299 92 85
Courrier des lecteurs: [email protected]
Envoi de la publication aux pensionnés: [email protected] ISSN 1830-5598 (version imprimée) – ISSN 1977-9259 (PDF) – ISSN 1977-9259 (EPUB)
Cette publication n’engage pas juridiquement la Commission.
ACCÈS À COMMISSION EN DIRECT EN LIGNE
Personnel actif: https://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu OP et retraités: https://myintracomm-ext.ec.europa.eu
Autres institutions et agences (également EEAS): http://myintracomm.ec.testa.eu
Silvia Imarisio has worked in DG
JRC’s Communica-
tion Unit for more
than 20 years. She
organises and ma-
nages corporate
events, mainly
devoted to youth.
Lewis Dijkstra is Deputy Head of DG REGIO’s Economic Analysis Unit. He is the editor and one of the main authors of the Cohesion Re-ports, working clo-sely with Eurostat, DG JRC, the European Environment Agency, OECD, World Bank, and academia. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Plan-ning from Rutgers University.
Denislava Simeonova joi-ned DG DIGIT’s Communication Unit in 2013 and is working to improve internal communica-tion. She is helping to organise the agenda for the DIGIT ICT 2014 conference ‘Digital Now!’ Prior to joining the Commis-sion, she has worked as content manager and web analyst.
Lothar Ehring is Assistant to the Head to the Support Group for Ukraine. Until mid-2014, he was Assistant to DG TRADE’s Deputy Director-General, re-sponsible for WTO and legal af-fairs, trade strategy and defence, and bilateral trade relations with the rest of Europe, Central Asia and North America.
Christine Zöllner works in DG EMPL’s Coordination Unit for the European Social Fund. She worked previous-ly for the French Ministry of Inte-rior and also gai-ned experience in the private sector
in Slovakia.
Dorothée Coucharrière is a po-licy officer at DG MOVE, where she deals with electro-mobility and inno-vation. Prior to joining the Commis-sion, she first worked for the French National Assembly and then for different companies in the energy sector. Dorothée holds two Masters degrees in Public Administration and in Comparative Legal Science.
A n n a - E v e l i i n a Louhivuori is a trainee in DG REGIO’s Competence Centre Macro-regions and European Territorial Cooperation. She will de-fend her dissertation on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region at the University of Helsinki in autumn 2014.
Robert Bojdak is a coordinator for Interinstitutional Relations at the Publications Office. He joined the Com-mission in 2008, af-ter having worked at Penguin Books in London. He holds a post-graduate de-gree in Digital Media Management.
Corinne Hermant-de Callataÿ and Christian Svanfeldt are policy officers res-ponsible for urban development in DG REGIO. They wrote the ‘Cities of tomor-row’ report in 2011, focusing on the chal-lenges faced by Euro-pean cities.
Giovanni Palmarini works in the Intranet team of DG JRC’s Com-munication Unit and takes part in the Unit’s activities to promote the role of science in the European context.
Claire Morel est en charge de la dimension internationale du pro-gramme «Erasmus+», dans l’unité internationale de la DG EAC, et suit les dia-logues sur les politiques de formation et d’enseigne-ment supérieur, notam-ment avec les pays du voisinage.
CONTRIBUTEURS
N i n a T h o m p -son-Williams is a DGT web editor and member of the Digital Trans-formation Team, working on stra-tegy and commu-nication regarding the top tasks iden-tification process and the project’s next phase – buil-ding the common architecture.
Klaudia Michalak- Palarz works in the Publica-tions Office’s Front Office team. Her main domain is PubliCare, a website with information and advice for those wanting to publish with the Office. In her previous life, in Poland, she worked as a journalist and translator of literature.
Staff Forum with President BarrosoThursday, 2 October, 10.00-11.30,
Press Room, BERL, Brussels
President Barroso will hold a Staff Forum in Brussels, with videoconference links to Luxembourg and Ispra, to discuss achievements and challenges in key policy areas. Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič will also take questions on staff policy issues.Each DG and Service is allocated a number of places, and only those on the confirmed participants list will have access to the Forum in person.Other staff can watch via webstreaming on My Intra-Comm.
The EKIDEN 2014 MarathonRun and help combat poverty in the EUSaturday, 18 October, 13:00,
King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Get involved! We count on you for another memorable event and demonstration of solidarity!For last year’s EKIDEN, we raised more than €10,000 to support ‘Les Restos du Coeur-Bruxelles’. The projects to be funded this year are presented on the GIVE EUR-HOPE website.Not a runner? Contact the GIVE EUR-HOPE mailbox and find out what else you can do to help! � www.giveeurhope.eu
(Margarita Savova-Peyrebrune, Michel Gasquard)
Balades guidées à vélo15-19 septembre, Bruxelles
Parmi les temps forts de la Semaine de la mobilité – 16 au 22 septembre –, l’OIB organise des balades guidées à vélo chaque jour de la semaine au départ de cinq bâtiments: Berlaymont, Beaulieu 5, Genève 6, Luxembourg 46, Madou. Un contrôle technique de votre deux-roues sera en outre proposé gratuitement. Enfin, l’OIB tiendra un stand d’information dans ces mêmes bâtiments pour répondre à toutes vos questions concernant la mobilité.Plus de précisions concernant les horaires et inscrip-tions paraîtront dans l’édition de septembre de Concrete. � [email protected]
ANNONCES
Depression and its consequences for private and professional lifeFriday, 10 October, 12:00-14:30,
Philippe Le Bon, Brussels
According to the World Health Organisation, by 2020, depression will be the second biggest health burden. On World Mental Health Day, the Medical Service Brussels will take the opportunity to raise awareness about depression and mental health at work through a lunchtime conference. A team of high-level specialists will cover the topic and address questions from the audience. Keep an eye on My IntraComm/Events for more details.
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EDITORIAL
As we commemorated the centenary this sum-mer of the beginning of the First World War
and are faced with new and continuing conflicts not so far from our borders, the EU’s mission of peace does not seem to have lost its relevancy in the contemporary world.
As we face these challenges, this autumn will be one of institutional change within the EU, following the renewal of the European Parliament as a result of this May’s European elections. We thus start with a focus on Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker’s priorities, as laid out in his ‘New Start for Europe – My Agenda for Jobs, Growth, Fairness and Democratic Change’ (pages 10-11).
In continuing to respond to the crisis, the Commis-sion’s REFIT programme has been seeking to reduce unnecessary regulatory burden, especially for small businesses, which form the backbone of the European economy (pages 12-13).
CHANGETHE ONE CERTAINTYby Zach Hester, EDITOR�IN�CHIEF, CEND
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With around one third of the EU budget in the 2014-20 programming period being dedicated to Cohesion Policy, this month’s dossier (pages 32-45) takes a look at what the reformed Regional Policy means for Europe’s regions, cities and local authorities and how it seeks to support the Europe 2020 goals of smart, sustainable, innovative and inclusive growth and jobs. This includes an interview with Commissioners Johannes Hahn and László Andor (pages 34-35).
In our quest to better serve citizens through the Commission’s web presence, DG EAC’s Nina Ahonen explains what her DG has been doing (pages 25-26) and DGT’s Nina Thompson Williams from the Digital Transformation Team presents the results of the Top Tasks on-line survey (pages 46-47). Colleagues from the Publications Office also explain the basics of reuse and copyright (pages 48-49) and how to use the OP’s PubliCare service (page 50).
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10 Juncker sets out his priorities
12 REFIT revisited
14 Innovation partnerships
18 Education et pouvoir du partenariat
20 Concours de plaidoiries en Haïti
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25 Transforming DG EAC’s web presence
27 Eveiller la passion des sciences chez les jeunes
28 Erasmus Mundus
30 The fight against fraud
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38 A “convergence machine” for reducing disparities
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42 Tackling youth employment
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I read the dossier on Digital Communication in the June edition of Commission en direct with great interest.At EASA we have undertaken a transformation of our digital communication with a very similar approach as the one described in the dossier. However, to promote such an approach and to get people on board, I would be grateful if you could send me a PDF copy of the dossier that I can share with some of my colleagues. It would help us explain to them what digital communication today is about.Thank you. All the best with Commission en direct.Dominique Fouda, EASA - European Aviation Safety Agency
We are always pleased to hear that colleagues find the dossiers and other features – articles and interviews – not only of interest but also of practical use in their work. Applying what our colleagues from the Publications Office tell us about ‘Reuse and copyright’ (pages 48-49) in this month’s edition, we at Commission en direct are more than happy that the materials we have produced, together with colleagues across the Commission and from other institutions, are broadly used.
All those colleagues interested in the digital transformation will, no doubt, be interested to read in this edition about what DG EAC has been doing (pages 25-26) and the results of the Top Tasks on-line survey (pages 46-47), which were not yet available when we went to press with the Digital Communication dossier in the June edition (CEND #13).Zach Hester, Editor-in-Chief, CEND
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Nelson Mandela said that “Education is the most powerful weapon we
can use to change the world”. As a former teacher I can only echo this.Andris Piebalgs � http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-502_en.htm
The European elections have
triggered many discussions and
debates. For voters, it was an
opportunity to refl ect on what
Europe really does for its citizens. In
this respect, Cohesion Policy off ers
many examples about how the EU
is reaching out to ordinary people
(…) creating growth and jobs and
investing in our future.Johannes Hahn � http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-495_en.htm
Marcel Pagnol a eu un jour
cette belle formule: «La raison
pour laquelle les gens trouvent
diffi cile d’être heureux est qu’ils
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international � http://www.imf.org/external/french/np/speeches/2014/070614f.htm
The biggest victory would be if we
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contradictory and antagonistic entities.Maroš Šefčovič, speaking to COSAC � http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-559_en.htm
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Green traffi c light for good Single Market performances
Since last summer, EU countries have stepped up their efforts to make it easier to live, work or
do business in another EU Member State, according to the latest edition of the Single Market Scoreboard released by the Commission in July. The Scoreboard indicates to what extent EU Member States and Eu-ropean Free Trade Area (EFTA) countries implement EU rules that are there to help citizens prosper in the Single Market – how Member States cooperate in a number of policy fields where coordination is essential. The Scoreboard provides country-specific information and analyses in detail how certain gov-ernance tools function and policies are applied in each country. A ‘traffic light’ chart shows at a glance how individual Member States have performed in terms of the governance tools and policy areas monitored, including the correct transposition of EU directives, infringement proceedings, administra-tive cooperation networks and various information and problem-solving services. The Commission has given red, yellow and green ‘cards’ based on their performance in the given fields. Of the 11 EU coun-tries that performed better than the EU average in all areas monitored, the most impressive result was achieved by Estonia (8 ‘green cards’) and Finland (7 ‘green cards’). Member States’ performance was below average 31 times, all resulting in ‘red cards’. � � http://europa.eu/!Pb88VD
Informer sur les risques liés à la consommation de droguesD’après une nouvelle enquête Eurobaromètre, les jeunes Européens sont moins bien informés sur les effets et risques liés à la consommation de drogues qu’il y a quelques années. Par rapport à 2011, les personnes interrogées sont plus susceptibles de se procurer des informations par internet qu’au-près d’autres sources. Selon les études menées par l’Observatoire européen des drogues et des toxico-manies (OEDT), c’est souvent au cours de la sco-larité que débute l’expérimentation des drogues: on estime que parmi les 15-16 ans, une personne sur quatre en a déjà consommé. Cette consomma-tion et les problèmes qui en découlent demeurent une source de préoccupation majeure. De ce fait, la Commission soutient des activités allant de la mise au point de moyens de détection et d’analyse renforcés des nouvelles substances psychoactives, à la formation de personnes dont le lieu de travail peut être propice à la consommation de drogues, comme les bars et les boîtes de nuit. Par ailleurs, le 16 juin dernier, la Commission a proposé l’interdic-tion de quatre nouvelles substances psychoactives qui simulent les effets de drogues illicites tels que l’héroïne ou le LSD. Elle a en outre invité le comité scientifique de l’OEDT à évaluer les risques de deux autres nouvelles substances psychoactives afin de déterminer s’il y a lieu d’en proposer l’interdiction. � � http://europa.eu/!vy79Cc
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First study maps school food policies in Europe
Childhood obesity is a growing problem with nearly one in three children in Europe being
overweight. The Joint Research Centre’s first compre-hensive assessment of school food policies in Europe is an important contribution to the Commission’s efforts to address this issue.The study shows that European countries acknowl-edge the important contribution of school food to children’s health, development, and performance at school. All the countries studied – the 28 EU Member States plus Norway and Switzerland – have guidelines for school food, although these vary considerably. National measures aimed at promoting healthy di-ets in schools range from voluntary guidelines, for example, for menus and portion sizes, to complete bans, including on marketing, vending machines ,and sugar-sweetened drinks.Improving child nutrition, teaching healthy diet and lifestyle habits as well as reducing or prevent-ing childhood obesity are the primary general goals shared by most countries. Using common criteria, such as foods that are allowed or banned, nutrient levels, dining facilities, catering services and mar-keting restrictions, the study maps the most recent national policy documents for standards and guide-lines on food available in primary and secondary schools. The report also provides an overview of the regulatory situation in the countries studied, which is an important step towards assessing the impact of such policies on childhood obesity. � � http://europa.eu/!Tq84uU
World Humanitarian DayOn World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres paid tribute to the enormous contribution made every year by humanitarian workers, whose work is becoming more and more dangerous. “Last year alone, some 250 security incidents were reported, killing, injuring or otherwise harming 457 aid workers. Never before has the humanitarian community suffered such losses. This year, the threats continued in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, Kenya and many other places.”World Humanitarian Day is observed in memory of the victims of the attack on the UN headquar-ters in Baghdad in 2003 which caused the deaths of 22 people, including the UN Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello.Kristalina Georgieva marked the Day while in Iraq, where the Commission is providing vital assistance to hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting. Paying tribute to “the people who risk their lives every day to help the victims of war and dis-asters around the world”, Georgieva highlighted the challenges faced. “The rising number and the evolving nature of conflicts is making our world ever more fragile,” she stressed. “With the combined impact of climate change, rapid population growth in places like the Sahel and a rising tide of extremism we will inevitably see more conflict, more hunger and more people forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods.”In June 2014, the UNHCR reported that global forced displacements now top 50 million for first time in the post-World War II era. � � www.unhcr.org/53f312379.html � www.unhcr.org/53a155bc6.html � http://europa.eu/!wt38rx � http://europa.eu/!QN87pr
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After some intense discussion and the first-ever EU-wide election campaign, the European People’s Party’s ‘leading candidate’ in the European elections, Jean-Claude Juncker, was proposed as the candidate for Commission President by the European Council of 27 June. On 15 July, a strong majority of 422 members of the European Parliament elected Juncker.
After six weeks of intense campaigning in 35 cit-ies in 18 countries, the former Prime Minister
of Luxembourg and head of the Eurogroup was pro-posed by Heads of State and Government as the can-didate to become the next Commission President at the European Council of 27 June. With this proposal, the European Council took account of the result of the European Parliament elections, thereby establishing, for the first time, a direct link between the outcome of the European Parliament elections and the proposed candidate for President of the Commission – as required by the Lisbon Treaty. The European Council’s conclu-sions included a strategic paper on the future of the European Union. The paper, alongside Juncker’s con-
sultations with all the political groups in the European Parliament, fed into Juncker’s political guidelines for the next European Commission which he presented to the European Parliament on 15 July and to the Eu-ropean Council on 16 July.
On 15 July, the House elected Jean-Claude Juncker with 422 votes in favour (376 being the majority re-quired), 250 votes against, 47 abstentions and 10 spoilt ballots.
Juncker presents his ‘New Start for Europe’In Strasbourg, Juncker presented ‘A New Start for Europe: My Agenda for Jobs, Growth, Fairness and Democratic Change’ (see link below) – his political guidelines for
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the next Commission and the political programme he was elected on. “I see it as my key task to rebuild bridges in Europe after the crisis,” he stated. “To restore European citizens’ confidence. To focus our policies on the key chal-lenges ahead for our economies and for our societies. And to strengthen democratic legitimacy on the basis of the Com-munity method.” Juncker added: “I intend to refocus the work of the new Commission on the basis of my Agenda for Jobs, Growth, Fairness and Democratic Change and its ten priorities. I intend to organise the new Commission in a way that reflects these ten priority areas and ensures swift and effective delivery on all of them.”
He committed to doing his “utmost” to ensure a gen-der-balanced choice of leading personnel in the Com-mission, both at political and at administrative level. “Gender balance is not a luxury. It is a political must and should be self-evident to everybody, including to the leaders in all capitals of our Member States when it comes to their proposal for the choice of members of the next Commission. This is in itself a test for the commitment of the governments of Member States to a new, more democratic approach in times of change,” the President-elect stated. In his stance on gender balance, Juncker was backed by the female Com-missioners of the Barroso II Commission who signed a letter calling on Member States to nominate more women for the future Juncker Commission.
Jobs, growth and investmentBoosting jobs and stimulating Europe’s economy stands at the top of the President-elect’s 10-point list of priori-ties. Within the first three to four months of his mandate and in the context of the Europe 2020 review, Juncker intends to present an ambitious Jobs, Growth and In-vestment Package. In his view, the package should be able to mobilise up to €300 billion in additional public and private investment in the real economy over the next three years.
Second of his priorities is an interconnected digital single market. “I believe that we must make much better use of the great opportunities offered by digital technologies, which know no borders. To do so, we will need to have the courage to break down national silos in telecoms regulation, in copyright
and data protection legislation, in the management of radio waves and in the application of competition law.”
A European Energy UnionThird on the list is “a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy”. Juncker stated that the current geopolitical events have “forcefully reminded us that Europe relies too heavily on fuel and gas imports. I therefore want to reform and reorganise Europe’s energy policy into a new European Energy Union. We need to pool our resources, combine our infrastructures and unite our negotiating power vis-à-vis third countries.”
Other key points on his political agenda include “a deeper and fairer internal market with a strengthened indus-trial base”, successful negotiations on a balanced Trans-atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the US, further reform of the Economic and Monetary Union, the creation of an “area of justice and fundamental rights based on mutual trust”, a new policy on migration, and strengthening further EU democracy, notably by enhancing transparency when it comes to contact with stakeholders and lobbyists and reviewing the legislation applicable to authorisation of GMOs.
Strengthening EU’s global roleJuncker also wants to strengthen the EU’s role as a global actor. “I believe we cannot be satisfied with how our common foreign policy is working at the moment. We need better mechanisms in place to anticipate events early and to swiftly identify common responses,” Juncker said, adding: “The next High Representative for Europe’s Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will have to be a strong and ex-perienced player to combine national and European tools, and all the tools available in the Commission, in a more effective way than in the past.”
Juncker also vowed to defend the general European interest. He stressed that this involves “working with eve-ryone – whether in the euro or not, whether in the Schengen agreement or outside, whether supportive of deeper integra-tion or not.” � � http://europa.eu/!Xx68wH
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To remain competitive and attractive, Europe needs clear and understandable regulation for
the maximum benefit of citizens and businesses alike.The Commission launched REFIT in December 2012
to screen the EU’s entire legislative stock and identify areas where costs could be reduced and regulations sim-plified. In October 2013, the Commission proposed over 100 individual initiatives to simplify, reduce costs, repeal laws in force, withdraw pending proposals, and carry out evaluations and ‘fitness checks’ in areas of concern (see CEND #08, pages 10-11). In a Commu-nication adopted on 18 June 2014, the Commission took stock of REFIT’s achievements so far and identi-fied new areas for action – to be confirmed by the new Commission in the context of 2015 Work programme. REFIT builds on the 2007-2012 Administrative Burden Reduction Programme, which achieved a potential re-duction of over 33% or €41 billion (CEND #01, pages 22-23).
REFIT – a shared goalREFIT is a collaborative project, requiring collective ef-forts from the Commission, Council, European Parlia-ment, Member States, and stakeholders. For instance, it is important that no additional regulatory burden is added in the legislative procedure or requirements added at the level of Member State implementation – a process known as ‘goldplating’.
Since REFIT was launched at the end of 2012, the co-legislators adopted a number of important proposals for simplification and burden reduction. For instance, recognition procedures for professional qualifica-tions have been made easier, a new legal framework for public procurement cuts red tape and promotes
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electronic procurement, and the introduction of the digital tachographs simplifies the work of lorry drivers and enforcement authorities alike. At the same time, there are also cases where estimated cost savings could not be fully delivered due to amendments by Council or Parliament, such as in the area of waste, company accounting, statistics and VAT. Progress and setbacks in the implementation of REFIT are documented in a detailed scoreboard published in June this year (see link below).
Helping businesses as a priorityThe Europe 2020 Strategy has made improving the business environment a top priority. Small and me-dium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in producing economic growth and employment in Europe. For this reason, the Commission applies the ‘Think Small First’ principle when designing policies to ensure that new laws respond to the needs of small businesses and help them to grow and create jobs.
In this context, the Commission works with stake-holders and SMEs to identify EU laws that create par-ticular burdens. Among others, legislation on chemicals (REACH), value added tax (VAT), product safety, rec-ognition of professional qualifications, data protection and waste were considered by SMEs as among the most burdensome in a public consultation carried out at the end of 2012. As a result, the Commission has taken ac-tion to reduce regulatory burden in these areas. Thanks to simplification of accounting and financial reporting, around 5 million micro-companies may now save ap-proximately €6.3 billion per year. The introduction of the fully electronic VAT invoicing system has enabled all businesses to save collectively €18 billion a year.
Unnecessary regulatory burden stifles businesses, especially small enterprises which play an important economic role. According to the Eurobarometer 79, from Spring 2013, 74% of citizens think that the EU generates too much red tape. The Commission’s Regulatory Fitness and Performance programme (REFIT) is busy making EU laws lighter, simpler and less costly.
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A clear future for regulationOn 18 June, the Commission announced that it con-siders that new simplification and burden-reduction initiatives are needed in certain areas. These include simplification of EU legislation on identity and travel documents, development of a new comprehensive ar-chitecture for business statistics, extension of the one-stop shop in the area of VAT to all business-to-consumer transactions, along with development of an EU VAT web portal to inform businesses about national and EU VAT rules. It also proposes codifying legislation on third country listings for visa requirements.
The Commission is also planning to propose the re-peal of legislation regarding energy labelling of fridges, household dishwashers and washing machines, which has been replaced by new implementing measures, and regarding out-of-date Regulations on abolition of dis-crimination in transport rates and conditions, stand-ardised environmental reporting and in the area of ag-riculture. Legislation in the area of police and judicial cooperation will also be screened to identify acts that
could be repealed, given the expiry of transitional meas-ures under Protocol 36 of the Lisbon Treaty.
As a matter of good legislative management, the Commission also withdraws proposals not making headway in the legislative process. Since 2006, al-most 300 proposals have been withdrawn – including 53 pending legislative proposals in June 2014.
Over the medium term, the Commission also en-visages launching several new evaluations and ‘fitness checks’ of the performance and implementation of ex-isting EU legislation, notably in such areas as consumer protection of timeshares, late payments, application of the mutual recognition principle in view of improving its functioning in the internal market, carbon capture and storage and CO2 emissions of light commercial ve-hicles and passenger cars, telecoms, and unauthorised entry, transit and residence.
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HORIZON 2020COMMISSION AND INDUSTRY TEAM UP FOR MULTI�BILLION INNOVATION PUSHby Michael Scheerer, CEND
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Horizon 2020, the EU’s new €80 billion research and innovation programme, will help boost our economy, improve the quality of life and overcome the great challenges we face. Thanks to support for new public-private partnerships, the best brains from academia, research, industry and SMEs can work together to boost Europe’s industrial competitiveness.
Seven public-private partnerships, established under Horizon 2020 to deliver results that no
single company or EU country can achieve alone, were launched on 9 July 2014. At a high-level event in Brus-sels coordinated by DG RTD, they announced the first calls for projects worth a total of €1.13 billion in public funding, which will be complemented by matching funds from the private sector. This investment will go into areas such as new treatments for diabetes and eye disease, and the roll-out of dozens of hydrogen-pow-ered road vehicles and refuelling stations.
The partnerships will boost innovation in key areas for the European economy that already provide high-quality jobs – innovative medicines (IMI2), clean air-craft (Clean Sky 2), bio-based industries (BBI), hydrogen and fuel cells (FCH2), electronic components and sys-tems (ECSEL), rail transport (Shif2Rail), and air traffic management (SESAR 2020). This first round of calls comes a year after the Commission put forward its In-novation Investment Package to establish these seven public-private partnerships and four public-public part-nerships. In total, the eleven partnerships are worth more than €22 billion over seven years.
“Only if the best brains from academia, industry, SMEs, research institutes and other organisations come together can we successfully tackle the huge challenges that we are facing,” explained Commission President José Manuel Barroso, who opened the event. “This is what public-private partnerships are about, the joining of forces to make the lives of Europeans better, create jobs and boost our com-petitiveness. We are committed to prioritising the impact of the European budget on the recovery, and these partnerships are doing just that.”
At the launch event, the private partners were repre-sented by Roch Doliveux, CEO of UCB, Henri Winand, CEO of Intelligent Energy, Jean-Paul Herteman, Chair-man and CEO of the Safran Group, Peder Holk Nielsen, CEO of Novozymes, Jean-Marc Chery, Chief Operating Officer of STMicroelectronics, Jochen Eickholt, CEO of Divison Rail Systems, Siemens AG, Infrastructure & Cities Sector, and Massimo Garbini, CEO of ENAV. In a joint statement, they said: “We are proud to be part of these new partnerships under Horizon 2020.” �
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Europe commemorates WWI centenary On 4 August, many ceremonies and events across Europe marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World
War I. At the Cointe Allies’ Memorial in Liège (photo, top), representatives of 83 countries attended a moving ceremony
in the very city where the first shots of the four-year-long war were fired when Germany violated Belgium’s neutrality,
sparking the UK’s entry into the war. Commission President José Manuel Barroso – pictured (photo, bottom right) with
the Belgian Royals, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde – also attended the ceremony, where an appeal was once more
made for an end to other conflicts around the world.
Impressive ceremonies were also held in London (photo, bottom le�), where the spectacular artwork ‘spectra’ by the
Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda lit the London skies, darkened for the occasion by the LIGHTS OUT initiative, with domestic and
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On 8 August, the EU added a further €8 million to the funding it has made available to contain the Ebola outbreak in
West Africa, bringing the total so far to €11.9 million. The EU is also deploying a second ‘European mobile laboratory’
in the affected area.
The additional funding provides immediate healthcare to the affected communities and helps contain the spread of
the epidemic. The aid will be channelled through the Commission’s humanitarian partners on the ground, including UN
agencies and non-governmental organisations.
Humanitarian experts from the Commission have also been deployed to the affected countries to assess the situation
and coordinate with the health authorities and humanitarian partners on the ground.
The Commission allocated humanitarian funding in response to the Ebola outbreak as early as March, scaling it up
when the outbreak worsened. The funding has enabled the World Health Organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to sustain and expand their actions.
The Commission is also working closely with EU Member States within the Health Security Committee, keeping them
informed about the latest developments and trying to synchronise measures to protect Europe. A travel advisory leaflet
was issued by the Health Security Committee and is available in all EU languages.
The European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) in Helsinki also recently updated its risk assessment on Ebola. �
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A la DG AGRI, on fait de l’agriculture... en vrai!
L’agriculture urbaine est en train de gagner du terrain partout en Europe, et même à la Commission. Et qui aurait pu
être mieux placée que la DG AGRI pour lancer une telle initiative?
Lors de la consultation lancée par l’OIB auprès du personnel de la DG pour le réaménagement de la terrasse du Loi 130,
plusieurs collègues ont manifesté leur désir d’installer un potager urbain, écologique et bio afin de jardiner pendant leurs
pauses. L’OIB a relevé le défi et fourni sept ‘BACSAC’ – des jardinières en toile spéciale qui contiennent du terreau bio
(voir la photo) – des robinets pour l’arrosage et (bientôt) deux coffres pour ranger les outils de l’équipe AGRI Potager.
La DG AGRI a accordé le temps nécessaire à la création du projet.
En raison du succès du projet, les sept bacs se sont révélés insuffisants pour répondre aux demandes de participation,
réservée au staff de la DG AGRI. L’objectif est d’installer d’autres bacs avant le printemps et – surtout – de voir d’autres
DG suivre le chemin de la DG AGRI.
Comme le soulignent les organisateurs de AGRI Potager, il ne s’agit pas seulement d’une action de bien-être, mais aussi
d’une activité formatrice qui crée du lien et permet l’échange d’expérience entre collègues de toute la DG rassemblés
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les acteurs de la scène internationale autour d’un pro-jet commun, l’éducation pour tous: gouvernements des pays partenaires, bailleurs de fonds, organisations internationales, ONG et entreprises contribuent à l’édu-cation de millions d’enfants dans plus de 60 pays en développement. Cette conférence a réussi à mobiliser plus de 26 milliards de dollars de financement supplé-mentaire pour l’éducation dans les budgets nationaux des pays partenaires pour les quatre ans à venir, ainsi que 2,1 milliards de dollars pour le fonds du GPE. Ces ressources permettront de lancer de nouveaux projets d’appui à l’éducation de base et à poursuivre ceux qui n’ont pas encore porté leurs fruits. L’UE et les Etats membres sont les plus grands donateurs d’aide au GPE, et leurs contributions ont été fondamentales pour sti-muler l’accroissement des investissements dans l’édu-
cation, par les pays bénéficiaires. Le commissaire chargé du développement, Andris Piebalgs, se sent particulière-ment concerné par cette action et a pris l’engagement de consacrer au développement humain et à l’inclu-sion sociale, notamment l’éducation, au moins 20 % de l’aide au développement de l’UE.
Vers un changement de stratégieComme le montre l’analyse de l’UNESCO, malgré des progrès effectués en matière d’enseignement, 57 millions d’enfants âgés de 6 à 11 ans ne sont toujours pas scola-risés, et les améliorations se font discrètes depuis 2007.
Les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement arrivent à échéance l’année prochaine, et cette transi-tion vers l’après-2015 est le moment propice pour amé-liorer la stratégie de financement du GPE. Le nouveau modèle de financement cherche à améliorer la manière dont le GPE soutient les programmes d’éducation des
En juin dernier, la deuxième édition de la Conférence pour la reconstitution des ressources du Partenariat mondial pour l’éducation s’est tenue à Bruxelles, sous le patronage du Commissaire Piebalgs. Venus de 91 pays, 800 participants ont échangé des idées et présenté divers projets afin d’améliorer le secteur de l’éducation à travers le monde et de faire le bilan pour mieux préparer les années à venir.
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pays partenaires, par moyen d’un meilleur ciblage des ressources visant à (i) financer les pays les plus pauvres et les plus éloignées des objectifs d’éducation, (ii) iden-tifier des allocations indicatives basés sur les besoins spécifiques de chaque pays et (iii) constituer une inci-tation à la performance.
De nombreux défisDans ce combat pour l’accès à l’éducation, le GPE se confronte à divers défis selon son niveau d’action.
Au niveau des gouvernements, le GPE a pour mis-sion de présenter l’éducation non pas comme un coût, mais comme un investissement dont les retours sont très rentables à moyen et long termes. Le GPE offre un appui tout particulier aux pays touchés par les conflits ou en situation instable, conscient que l’éducation n’est pas une de leurs priorités. Ainsi, pour certains pays comme l’Afghanistan un avenir plus sûr et plus productif commence à se dessiner (voir encadré). Le GPE mène également un combat contre la fraude et la corruption. Il instaure un principe de transparence et un solide échange d’informations avec et entre les acteurs des différents niveaux qui aident à détecter rapidement les cas de détournement de fonds. Il appartient aux pays concernés de mener l’enquête ou de rembourser la somme manquante. Cette politique impliquant la responsabilité des acteurs a fait ses preuves puisque très peu de cas de détournement ont été identifiés et que tous ont été résolus.
Au niveau du système scolaire, le problème réside principalement dans le nombre d’enseignants et leurs qualifications. Actuellement, il faudrait 5,2 millions de nouveaux enseignants pour remplacer les futurs retrai-tés et combler le manque de personnel afin d’atteindre un ratio élèves/enseignant optimal, permettant un enseignement de qualité.
Enfin, au niveau des enfants et des jeunes, une grande partie de ceux qui ne sont pas scolarisés souffrent d’un handicap mental, moteur ou encore social comme le montre la discrimination des filles à l’école. Quasi-ment deux tiers des analphabètes du monde seraient
des femmes et 31 millions de filles ne seraient toujours pas scolarisées. Les raisons sont multiples et peuvent être d’ordre social, lorsque les filles sont destinées très jeunes à être mariées, à travailler ou lorsqu’elles ne sont pas considérées comme aptes à étudier. Dans certains cas, ce sont les infrastructures qui ne sont pas adaptées, comme l’absence de sanitaires et d’eau.
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Le cas de l’AfghanistanL’Afghanistan n’a cessé de traverser des périodes de conflits.
Son paysage politique et social, ravagé par des évènements
comme les coups d’Etat et les guerres, laisse peu de place à une
politique de l’éducation. L’Afghanistan est 175e sur 187 dans
le classement de l’indice de développement humain. En 2008,
l’alphabétisation des jeunes était de seulement 39 %.
On distingue une très forte discrimination des filles à l’entrée à
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rieur à 0,80 en faveur des garçons. De plus, pour le secondaire,
l’Afghanistan détient le rapport élèves/enseignant le plus élevé
avec une moyenne de 45 élèves par classe.
Ce pays en marge a rejoint le GPE en 2011 et a bénéficié d’un
financement de 55,7 millions de dollars. Grâce à cette aide du
GPE, près de 10 millions d’enfants suivent un enseignement
primaire et secondaire. L’Afghanistan a encore un long chemin
à parcourir pour améliorer la situation et le GPE devrait l’aider
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Nephtalie Bernadeau, 18 ans, est la gagnante du concours de plaidoirie sur le thème de droits de l’homme, organisé par la délégation de l’UE en Haïti dans le cadre de la Semaine de l’Europe 2014, au mois d’avril. Commission en direct a recueilli les impressions de la jeune et brillante lauréate lors de son voyage à Bruxelles, prix du concours.
Comment s’est passé ta participation au concours?J’aime communiquer et je fais également du théâtre, ce qui m’aide à être une bonne oratrice. Lorsque j’étais plus jeune, c’était plus facile, mais arrivée à l’adolescence, ça s’est quelque peu compliqué. C’est pendant cette période de doute que l’annonce du concours a été faite dans mon école et après avoir hésité quelque temps, je me suis inscrite. J’ai commencé à travailler le jour même. Je dois vous confier que je n’aime pas écrire, donc il a fallu beaucoup de brouillons pour arriver à un résultat après trois semaines. Ma mère m’a beaucoup soutenue lors des petits moments de découragement et, en fait, ma participation au concours m’a permis de dépasser mes limites et de mettre mes doutes de côté.
D’où vient ta passion pour les droits humains?J’ai l’ambition dans ma vie, pour moi c’est le plus im-portant, de défendre les droits humains. Depuis toute petite, c’est quelque chose qui me tient vraiment à cœur, notamment grâce à l’influence de ma mère, qui est également passionnée par ce sujet. Depuis l’âge de 10 ans, je prends part à des projets soutenant les droits de l’homme ou la protection de l’environnement: ral-lyes, apport d’aide dans des orphelinats... A travers ces évènements, j’ai appris à parler en public et à intéres-ser mon auditoire. Cet intérêt provient du fait que je connaisse quelqu’un qui est né d’un viol. Cet acte a été lourd de conséquences pour cette personne qui n’a pas été aimée par sa famille. Ce problème m’a interpellé à
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tel point que je souhaite que chacun puisse vivre dans un climat de sécurité. L’insécurité entraîne la méfiance et la méfiance est un frein à l’évolution d’une situation.
Quel est le niveau de prise de conscience de ta génération quant aux droits humains?La majorité de mes camarades de classe, ayant la chance de venir d’un milieu privilégié, n’a pas forcément conscience de certaines situations compliquées dans le pays. D’autres sont tout aussi passionnés que moi. J’essaie de me démarquer en prenant part à des actions concrètes et pas seulement en tenant un discours sur le sujet, en participant par exemple à des campagnes de sensibilisation auprès de mes pairs.
Quelles sont tes premières impressions sur l’UE?Je pense qu’un voyage qui permet de comprendre le fonctionnement de l’UE est un prix adéquat pour le concours. Mais il faut aussi une certaine maturité pour l’apprécier. C’est très intéressant de découvrir les bureaux de personnes qui travaillent dans mon pays ou qui ne connaissent rien de celui-ci et qui sont motivées par leur boulot. L’organisation dans l’ensemble de la Commission, une qualité que j’apprécie beaucoup, m’a particulièrement marquée.
Quels sont tes projets futurs?Je viens de finir mes études à l’Institution Sainte-Rose-de-Lima, à Port-au-Prince, et je souhaite entreprendre des études de droit, si possible à Paris ou à Bruxelles, pour ensuite travailler dans l’aide humanitaire. Ma par-ticipation au concours a d’ailleurs suscité cette décision. Auparavant je voulais travailler dans le droit privé.
Quel est ton avis sur le concours?Je pense que le concours était une très bonne initiative. Donner la possibilité aux jeunes de s’exprimer mais aussi de réfléchir sur des problématiques telles que la protection des droits de l’homme est une opportunité extraordinaire pour aiguiser notre intelligence, en tant
que leaders de demain. Le simple fait pour moi d’écrire ma plaidoirie a créé un processus de réflexion, mais écouter le discours des autres candidats m’a également beaucoup appris.
Je voudrais d’ailleurs faire passer un message d’en-couragement à toute personne qui hésite devant un défi. Si je n’avais pas entrepris cette aventure, je ne serais pas à Bruxelles aujourd’hui. Et un message de soutien à toutes les victimes de viol ou de violence: c’est en se taisant qu’on permet aux gens qui font le mal de continuer.
La délégation en Haïti espère réitérer l’expérience du concours de plaidoirie l’année prochaine. � � http://europa.eu/!Yn69uv
Une opportunité extraordinaire pour aiguiser
notre intelligence, en tant que leaders de demain
L’action de l’UE pour les droits de l’homme en HaïtiLe choix du thème du concours de plaidoirie fait écho à l’une
des politiques clé de coopération de l’UE auprès des pays tiers.
Les principaux objectifs de l’action de l’UE pour promouvoir les
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lir plus d’informations sur le phénomène de domesticité des
enfants – «reste avec» en dialecte, c’est-à-dire l’envoi d’enfants
des campagnes dans une famille à la ville où ils s’occupent
de tâches ménagères en échange de l’accès à l’école –, qui
est en réalité lié au problème d’accès aux services dans les
régions isolées.
contre les violences domestiques.
qui permet de faire évoluer la situation plus rapidement mais
aussi d’apporter une protection aux défenseurs parfois menacés
de mort.
Pour remédier à ces problématiques, la délégation finance des
projets et organismes grâce à des fonds de l’UE, notamment à
travers l’IEDDH (Instrument européen pour la démocratie et les
droits de l’homme), géré par la DG DEVCO.
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the Internal Communication Awards video category. Some of these used video as a story-telling vehicle and a tool to improve staff engagement. With research showing that high-engagement organisations deliver better results, a panel discussion with senior managers (see box) focused specifically on how to achieve higher levels of staff engagement through better communi-cation. Speaker Eric May also gave some hands-on tips about how to motivate and inspire. One of the means mentioned in both events to motivate staff is through recognition and reward. One of the key aims of the Internal Communication and Staff Engagement Awards is thus to celebrate excellent initiatives taken throughout the Commission, as well as to encourage the sharing of best practices. Supporting this goal of professionalising the internal communication func-tion, Alexandra Earl, training manager at Melcrum, gave a session on how to maximise the value of the profession itself, in ‘Partnering with the Business’ on 27 June.
Internal communication has many dimensions – ensuring staff are well informed through various
channels, fostering collaboration, supporting knowl-edge sharing, creating an esprit de corps, and enabling two-way communication by supporting managers and leaders in their communication activities. Ultimately, this should help staff do their work more effectively and deliver better on policies for Europe’s citizens.
This year‘s Internal Communication Week re-volved around some interlinked themes – storytelling, staff engagement and celebrating success. The art of storytelling – or how to narrate information, and so convey emotions and authenticity, instead of just describing or enumerating – was on everyone’s lips. DG COMM’s speechwriter Isabelle Gaudeul-Ehrhart outlined the main components of a successful story in a practical workshop, and media consultant Eric May encouraged managers to use storytelling techniques as a way to connect with their staff. The ‘BERLinale’ film festival screened and presented the entries from
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From 23 to 30 June, DG HR’s Communication Unit, in conjunction with the Commission’s Internal Communication Network, organised a series of events on internal communication given by internal and external experts, culminating in the Internal Communication and Staff Engagement Awards on 30 June.
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Senior Management communication –
a key driver of staff engagement
According to last year’s Staff Survey, less than half of staff
agree that senior managers practice two-way communication,
encourage collaboration, or demonstrate that listening to staff
is important. Lowri Evans, DG MARE’s Director-General, Nadia
Calviño, DG BUDG’s Director-General, Jonathan Faull, DG MARKT’s
Director-General, and Alexander Italianer, DG COMP’s Director-
General, participated in a panel discussion on 25 June, to share
ideas on internal communication and staff engagement with
fellow managers. Some common themes emerged.
Link staff ’s work to the Commission’s
strategic objectivesAccording to Lowri Evans, all staff should understand their Di-
rector-General’s vision and should know where their work fi ts
into the DG’s mission. It is senior management’s job to make
that link clear. During ‘Council debriefi ng’ sessions, she explains
to DG MARE staff , a� er each Council meeting, what has been
decided and why, and what is the impact on their work. Staff then
develop a common line to be able to explain the DG’s position
to the outside world.
Management doesn’t have the monopoly
of ideas “The Director-General can’t do it alone,” declared Jonathan Faull,
which means that staff should be encouraged to give their ad-
vice on various topics, policy-related or administrative. DG COMP
has established the ‘COMP Wiki’, where staff can share their
knowledge and interact through comments. Alexander Italianer
stressed that knowledge is a two-sided market with supply and
demand – staff must both contribute to and use the wiki.
The human factor is crucial Regular contact with their Commissioner and Directors has a very
positive impact on staff ’s engagement. For Nadia Calviño, nothing
replaces face-to-face contact. Managers should go shake hands,
acknowledge each staff member as an individual, and simply be
able to listen to them. This also gives an opportunity to reward
staff by showing appreciation. “Every minute spent investing in people is time well spent,” said Alexander Italianer.
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The fourth edition of the Awards attracted a record number of 84 entries from 26 DGs, Services, and Agen-cies. The aim is to celebrate outstanding or particularly replicable initiatives in the internal communication profession. Here are the winners in each of the six cat-egories – for your inspiration.
Category 1- Best change communication DG REGIO for the ‘Change REGIO’ initiative
A DG REGIO working group authored a ‘Blueprint for change’, using a broad range of consultative methods, suggesting various activities. Management’s commit-ment to the project introduced an atmosphere of open-ness and free flows of information.
Category 2 - Best intranetDG EMPL
A thorough simplification of the intranet – in both design and content – was carried out, based on user surveys, to improve the user experience and increase staff engagement.
� From le� to right: Nadia Calviño, DG BUDG’s Director-General, Jonathan Faull, DG MARKT’s Director-General, Norman Jardine, Head of DG HR’s Communication Unit, Lowri Evans, DG MARE’s Director-General, and Alexander Italianer, DG COMP’s Director-General.
The EMPL intranet is user-centric, with a modern look and no information overload
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Category 3 - Best staff engagement initiativeERCEA (European Research Council Executive Agency) for its ‘Organisational Development team in support of staff engagement projects’
The ERCEA Organisational Development team con-sists of 13 colleagues from various Departments who spend 10% of their working time on projects promoting staff engagement, cross-department collaboration and strengthening internal communication.
Category 4 - Best use of social mediaDG DIGIT for its ‘World is getting smaller with social media’DG DIGIT’s top management and communication team used Yammer and the Director’s blog to involve the DG’s 1,500 staff across 8 different buildings in Brussels and Luxembourg.
Category 5 - Best use of video – Joint winnersDG DIGIT for its Training Services E-learning ‘Wise-Up’ videoTo challenge perceptions, DIGIT Training Services used this video to communicate more effectively about the benefits of e-learning.
OIB for its staff initiative, in-house video on the ‘Paperless offi ce’The ‘paperless’ working group was set up to examine ways of reducing the use of paper and introducing new working methods – an OIB priority. This parody of a hit tune was a new way of getting the message across.
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Category 6 - Most cost-effective internal communication initiative or product – Joint winnersERCEA for its ‘Breakfast with the Director – Morning coff ee exchanges’This activity aims at reinforcing the di rect exchange of views between staff and the Director on how to further develop the Agency as a working environment.
DG HR for ‘Yammer’The on-line social platform goes beyond organisational silos, enables people to share ideas, thereby contributing to staff engagement. The cost effectiveness lies in the universality of the tool – it serves and impacts the entire organisation. �
All entries available on the Awards 2014 brochure
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ERCEA positioned colleagues as strategic partners
The involvement of top management helped create a more transparent culture
The idea of someone you can identify with and the whole visual approach were outstanding
In this day of digitisation we forget the high impact of face-to-face meetings
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As part of the rationalisation of the Commission’s public websites (Dossier in CEND #13), the web team in DG EAC’s Communication Unit redesigned the DG’s websites for the launch of the new programmes Erasmus+ and Creative Europe, with the objective of rendering their on-line presence more user-friendly, coherent and modern, while also cutting costs. Nina Ahonen, team leader, speaks to Commission en direct about the process.
How did your web rationalisation project start?DG EAC is one of 11 DGs managing 60% of the Com-mission’s websites and 80% of its web pages (along with DGs COMM, DEVCO, EMPL, ENER, ENTR, CONNECT, JUST, RTD, SANCO, and the SG). It was thus selected in early 2012 to take part in the Commission’s web ration-alisation project. This was a challenge I really wanted to take on as the topics we deal with concern a vast number of EU citizens, especially young people. I knew it would be a big change for the DG and require determination, dedication and resilience, but I was ready to provide enthusiasm, resourcefulness and decisiveness.
From the outset, DG EAC has been actively involved by being a member of the Steering Committee on web
rationalisation and closely collaborating with the Com-mission’s Digital Transformation Team – a project team led by DGs COMM, DIGIT and DGT, and made up of web professionals, web editors and external service providers.
How has the web team gone about tackling this?As the project of revising and redesigning the thematic sites progressed, we had to reinforce the web team with editorial, technical, analytical and audiovisual skills as well as competences relating to usability, accessi-bility, copyright, data protection and trends in digital communication, to be able to meet the objectives and deadlines. I joined in December 2012 from DG EMPL
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its sites in a user-centred way
where I had been a web editor for a few years. Today our team consists of two officials – myself and Dominique Bonjean – and six external service providers – Frederick Glaser, Edith Guetta, Lena Kraft, Maddalena Monge, Mohammad Naqi and Trevor Yeo. The reinforced team allows us to smoothly take DG EAC through the digital transformation. We encourage each other to think ‘out-side of the box’ and find the most creative and effective ways of publishing content. We openly discuss ideas and decide together the best way forward. Our motto is ‘Team work makes the dream work’.
What was involved?Our challenge was to streamline, cut content and re-design the thematic sites to better meet users’ needs.
Together with the Digital Transformation Team, we first organised a ‘card sorting’ session with colleagues from DG EAC. This method is used to help design or evaluate the information architecture of a site, and define its main navigation and structure. This was fol-lowed by a ‘tree testing’ – a usability technique to evalu-ate the findability of topics in a website, which is done on a text version – to see if the structure met the users’ needs. In parallel, we launched on-line surveys to get a better understanding of what users were looking for. The results helped us organise the content. User testing throughout the whole project also allowed us to ensure we were going in the right direction.
From the outset, there was a certain lack of under-standing or recognition of the complexity of the project and the workload involved. But the result was a 90% cut in the content, and DG EAC became one of the first DGs to have designed its sites in a user-centred way.
The transition from decentralised to centralised management of our web presence has been a big change which has taken our colleagues in operational units some getting used to. In order to maintain our profes-sional, streamlined and coherent approach, we have implemented web governance in the DG – a kind of organisational chart for managing and editing our on-line presence in a controlled way. In particular, we in-
troduced a centralised ticketing system for web-related issues, the Web Management System (WMS), which also provides detailed statistics.
Currently, our daily tasks involve dealing with the issues we receive from operational units through the WMS, updating and editing content, coordinating translations, and ensuring that there are no copyright or data protection violations and that accessibility for disabled users is respected and followed.
What are the benefits?Content has been organised and written to meet users’ needs – rather than the organisation’s internally per-ceived needs. The new thematic sites are now stream-lined, coherent and user-centric. A majority of users can more easily find information and navigate the structure, which consists now of only three levels. All content is accessible via the mega menu which means that if users land on a page through a search engine, they will have the full overview of what the site is about.
What’s next?Thanks to our pioneering work in web rationalisation, workflow procedures, implementation of web govern-ance and introduction of the WMS, we will be involved in the development and design of the new EUROPA platform together with the Digital Transformation Team. This will start in autumn 2014 and continue until 2016. �
The tree of changeDG EAC’s web team has hung what they call a ‘tree of change’
in their corridor. The tree shows how the team is growing and
changing with the impact of digital transformation, and the dif-
ferent elements which have to be taken into consideration in
the future. The team has managed to change DG EAC’s on-line
presence by turning over a new leaf, and becoming agents of
change. The arrow next to the tree points forward to the vision
the team has, and what the members would like to achieve with
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L’innovation scientifique et technologique a la caractéristique de créer de nouveaux marchés et donc de nouveaux emplois. Dans l’optique d’encourager les jeunes à découvrir la science, le Centre commun de recherche (Joint Research Centre – JRC) à Ispra mène des initiatives visant à rapprocher les écoles et la recherche scientifique en Europe.
SCIENCES ET EUROPEEVEILLER LA PASSION DES JEUNESpar Silvia Imarisio et Giovanni M. Palmarini, DG JRC
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Cette année le JRC à Ispra a organisé de nom-breux évènements et activités pour les étu-
diants, qui ont eu la chance de découvrir le Centre et le travail passionnant de ses scientifiques. Nos labora-toires ont montré aux étudiants une approche induc-tive basée sur l’observation, l’expérimentation et l’ auto-apprentissage.
Les 2 000 étudiants de 40 écoles élémentaires et se-condaires réunis pour les ‘Student Days’ les 13 et 14 mai derniers dans les laboratoires à Ispra se sont interrogés sur la qualité de l’air, des sols et sur les alternatives exis-tantes aux tests sur les animaux. Ils ont pu comprendre le rôle de la science face au changement climatique et aux tremblements de terre, et celui du JRC dans le développement des politiques européennes.
Encourager les étudiantsLe ‘European Schools Science Symposium’ (ESSS) est un concours scientifique ouvert aux élèves du cycle secondaire des écoles européennes des institutions UE, de la deuxième à la septième année. Ils sont encouragés à choisir et explorer un domaine scientifique, ne figu-rant pas dans leur programme scolaire. Cette édition 2014 a rassemblé plus de 100 étudiants, 30 professeurs
et a sélectionné 60 projets de recherche scientifique et d’ingénierie et design.
Le JRC est activement impliqué dans des compéti-tions scientifiques, comme le ‘EU Contest for Young Scientists’ (EUCYS), ‘Science – it’s a girl thing’ (organi-sées par DG RTD), et le ‘Jugend Forscht’, décernant des prix aux jeunes talents, et il offre aux lauréats la possibilité de découvrir un environnement scientifique professionnel à Ispra.
S’occuper des générations futures‘Peer Active’ est une étude du JRC visant à promouvoir l’activité physique et combattre l’obésité des enfants via l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux et mécanismes d’influence par des pairs.
Au terme de ce projet, les élèves ont tous été invités à visiter le JRC et rencontrer les scientifiques qui leur ont expliqué le contexte du projet ‘Peer Active’ à travers des activités pratiques en laboratoires.
Au-delà de ses fonctions de recherche, le JRC donne ainsi un nouveau souffle à la science pour aider les générations futures tant sur un plan éducationnel que professionnel. � � https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/
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Erasmus Mundus started ten years ago to give an international dimension and a worldwide visibility to EU academic cooperation and mobility programmes. Today there are 138 Erasmus Mundus joint masters’ courses and 42 joint doctoral programmes offering EU-funded scholarships.
So far, some 16,000 students, 1,000 doctoral can-didates, and 3,000 academic staff from all over
the world have participated in the programme. As of 2014, Erasmus Mundus was integrated into the new Erasmus+ programme (see CEND #11, page 12), which has not only a European but also a strong international dimension.
An alumni association was set up in 2006 in or-der to allow students to stay in contact with each other, and with the Commission, create a worldwide community, and use their exceptional competences. The Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association currently has around 10,000 active members coming from over 174 different countries. The most represented coun-tries in the association are India, China, Pakistan, Ethi-opia, Brazil, Bangladesh, Mexico, Russia, Germany, Indonesia and the USA. The association offers services to its members, including professional networks – for example, a ‘Jobs board’ and an entrepreneurship sec-tion – to facilitate the transition to work.
The Commission and, in particular, DG EAC’s International Unit, regularly calls upon the network’s huge potential and expertise. Erasmus Mundus alum-ni have a strong sense of belonging to the association,
to the programme that funded their studies and to Europe in general. DG EAC considers them as its best ambassadors to promote the programme and European higher education to other students and academic staff. EU Delegations also regularly call on their expertise, as they can provide positive testimo-nies of their studies in Europe, and often have success stories to tell.
DG EAC also consults the association on policy issues – for example, they help evaluate the con-tent of Erasmus Mundus courses or conduct annual graduate impact surveys. The surveys are encourag-ing – among the Erasmus Mundus graduates who are now employed, only 18% were unemployed for more than six months after graduation. On average, it took them less than four months to find a job.
With the launching of the new Erasmus+ pro-gramme, the Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association will be brought closer to the Erasmus Student Network to ensure more coherence, visibility and linkages be-tween European and foreign students and cater for the needs of students engaged in short-term mobility as part of their bachelor’s, master’s or PhD degree, as well as those enrolled in joint degrees.
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Helping alumni stay connectedAlumni have a wide and rich range of profiles and expe-riences to offer. Here are a few examples of this diversity.
Gabriel Mayer, from Brazil, is an Erasmus Mundus Alumnus in the Master’s in Adapted Physical Activity. He has studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Bel-gium) and the Univer-sity of Olomouc (Czech Republic).Gabriel is one of the founders of Urece Sports and Culture for the Blind.
In connection with his work to promote paralympic sports, Gabriel has been invited to the UN and has been involved in FIFA’s Corporate Social Responsibil-ity programmes and in UNICEF task forces, and he helped establish the Sports for Social Change and Street Football World networks. During the World Cup in Brazil, Gabriel was part of the team providing audio-descriptive commentary. In 2013, Gabriel was awarded the title of young social entrepreneur by the Rio de Janeiro Chamber of Commerce.
Leasa Weimer, from the US, graduated from the Er-asmus Mundus European Master’s in Higher Educa-tion Programme. She has studied at the University of Oslo (Norway), Univer-sity of Tampere (Finland), and University of Aveiro (Portugal).In 2011, she was awarded a Fulbright grant and an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant to sup-
port her PhD research in Finland. She also received the Association of International Education Administrators’ Harold Josephson Award for professional promise in international education. In 2013, Leasa defended her PhD and was offered a postdoctoral research position at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
Currently, in addition to her research position, Leasa serves as the President of the Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association.
Raj Sark, from India, graduated from the Eras-mus Mundus Master’s in Global Innovation Man-agement. He studied at the University of Strath-clyde (Scotland), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Hamburg University of Technology (Germany).Raj developed SmartTAG – a simple ‘connect and forget’ application to help you find lost objects. With
SmartTAG, Raj was among the semi-finalists in the 2011-12 ‘NYC Next Idea’ Global Business Plan com-petition that encourages innovative business ventures to launch and operate in New York City. His SmartTAG project was also among the 2012 finalists of the Venture Cup, Denmark – an entrepreneurship event in Copen-hagen. Moreover, Raj received a fellowship to be part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s prestigious annual entrepreneurship summit in 2012.
He has also created his own app called LUPO which finds, secures and controls your Bluetooth devices. �
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The Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association has around 10,000 active
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Giovanni Kessler, Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), talks to Commission en direct about some of the results achieved over the last year, thanks notably to increased information received about potential fraud cases, as well as about future challenges.
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What are OLAF’s priorities for the next years?The European Anti-Fraud Office is independent in its investigations, but as a part of the Commission it con-tributes to developing anti-fraud-related policies. As such, the Office has contributed to a series of Commis-sion proposals and measures to foster the fight against fraud over the last years. Some of these initiatives – such as the Commission’s multiannual anti-fraud strategy (CAFS) and the new OLAF Regulation – have already been adopted and implemented. Others, such as the draft Directive on the fight against fraud by means of criminal law and the draft Regulation on establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), are still being discussed by the co-legislators.
The idea of creating an EPPO deserves special atten-tion, and I am happy to see that Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker has also expressed support for making progress on this proposal. The financial and economic crisis has led to diminished trust in Europe. This we need to repair. An effective fight against fraud in Europe is necessary and can contribute to consoli-dating taxpayers’ trust. OLAF will actively support the new Commission in this task.
How big a problem is cross-border fraud today, and how could an EPPO help?Crimes of fraud easily cross borders, with it often being difficult to locate fraudsters. Criminal organisations are increasingly international and criminals can still afford the luxury of ‘forum shopping’ when it comes to choosing where to operate – thus minimising the risk of being prosecuted. This is because progress in creating a true common space for justice has been rather slow up until now. There are still too many divergent rules, a lack of resources, and an inability to gather evidence in cross-border cases.
An EPPO would facilitate transnational investiga-tions, because it would allow for fully fledged criminal investigations across the EU. Furthermore, it would make it easier to bring these criminals before a national court. Currently, the conviction rate for fraud offences against EU resources still varies greatly among Member States, with the EU average being about 50%.
What has OLAF been able to achieve in the fight against fraud over the last year?In 2013, OLAF was able to significantly step up the fight against fraud in Europe. Citizens and public entities from across Europe sent us more information regarding potential frauds than ever before in the history of OLAF,
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showing increased trust in our Office. We shortened significantly the duration of time in which we decide whether or not to pursue a case, leading to a more ef-ficient time allocation on investigations. We also com-pleted a record number of investigations while reducing their overall duration. In 2013, we recommended the recovery of more than €400 million to the EU budget, which will help fund other projects and ease the burden on EU taxpayers.
Like all Commission services, OLAF has to adapt to budgetary constraints. So I am very happy that this higher volume of work has been done with virtually the same resources as in previous years. This has been possible thanks to the professionalism and commit-ment of our staff, which has helped to improve OLAF’s performance.
What does the new Regulation mean for OLAF’s activities?Public expectations have always been high for OLAF to be efficient and swiftly uncover fraud affecting the EU budget. At the same time, we are bound in our administrative investigations by a series of rules. We were not designed as a body of prosecutors or a criminal police. Over the last years, the EU co-legislators and OLAF have together refined and improved the rules governing our activity. Regulation 883, which entered into force in October 2013, not only clarified and con-solidated the investigative powers of OLAF but it also further defined the rights of persons concerned by our investigations. At the same time as the new Regulation, new Guidelines of Investigative Procedures for OLAF staff have been introduced. They are an additional guar-
antee that OLAF investigations are conducted with the highest professional standards, as well as in full respect of all procedural rights of persons concerned by our investigations and – above all – in full respect of the presumption of innocence.
How has OLAF contributed recently to some major anti-smuggling operations?OLAF regularly coordinates joint customs operations. These operations are targeted, short-term actions where the majority of Member States and, increasingly, op-erational partners from third countries such as China join forces with the aim of combating the smuggling of sensitive goods and fraud in certain risky areas and/or on identified trade routes. Recent examples include Operation Warehouse targeting the smuggling of ex-cise goods, during which almost 45 million smuggled cigarettes, nearly 140,000 litres of diesel fuel and about 14,000 litres of vodka were seized. Another successful operation was JCO ERMIS which focused on postal and courier mail traffic, to identify fake products shipped through small consignments. More than 70,000 coun-terfeit goods were seized during this action. In addition to such joint customs operations, OLAF also regularly helps Member States to seize smuggled cigarettes. To give you one example – based on information gathered by OLAF, Greek customs have been able to seize nearly 30 million smuggled cigarettes this year. In three major operations, OLAF and the Greek authorities have pre-vented the loss of nearly €9 million in unpaid duties and taxes. � � http://ec.europa.eu/anti_fraud/
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Cohesion Policy is now entering a crucial period, with the adoption of Partnership Agreements with Member States and the start of over 300 national, regional and territorial cooperation investment programmes. The results from 2007-13 show the important contribution made in reducing regional economic disparities in Europe and enabling many Member States to cope with the crisis. Commission en direct looks at the new priorities and challenges for 2014-20, as well as recent past achievements.
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Commissioners Johannes Hahn (Regional Policy) and László Andor (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) explain how Cohesion Policy is helping to produce smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.
How is Cohesion Policy helping countries and regions to exit the crisis?Johannes Hahn: Cohesion Policy is the EU’s main invest-ment tool for making Europe 2020 goals a reality. It is a modernised, flexible and responsive instrument driving economic recovery and convergence in Europe, helping countries get back on the path to growth, and allowing others to retain their competitive edge. Investments are boosting research and innovation, supporting new businesses, preserving and creating sustainable jobs, giving remote regions broadband, and building vital transport links. In a period of tight fiscal constraints, Cohesion Policy has proven to be one of the most sig-nificant stable sources of finance for long-term growth, accounting for an important proportion of public in-vestment in Europe. In nine Member States, it amounts to more than half of all public investments.
What are the key challenges now?J.H.: For 2014-20, around €500 billion in total – includ-ing EU and national co-financing – will be invested in Europe’s regions and cities to tackle such major chal-lenges as high unemployment rates, increasing energy costs, and an ageing population. The focus is on per-formance and results. With strengthened links to the
Europe 2020 goals, key growth sectors are strategically targeted for investment. For example, the European Regional Development Fund will focus on four main priorities – research and innovation, support to small businesses, information and communications technol-ogies, and the low-carbon economy. Future investments must also be rooted in carefully designed strategies be-fore projects are selected, and not the other way round. Past experience has shown that some investments failed to reach their full potential due to a lack of strategic planning. ‘Smart specialisation’ strategies, where re-gions focus on their specific strengths to increase their economic potential, are an example of such planning.
What is being done to tackle youth unemployment?László Andor: The young are Europe’s future. This is why our absolute priority is to help young people get a good start in their working life. Cohesion Policy – no-tably through the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) – is providing sup-port to help young people enter the labour market. The setting of an ESF minimum share and the YEI special allocation are concrete signs that the EU is focusing on Europe’s most important resource – human capital.
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I am, therefore, particularly happy to see that some Member States are going even beyond the minimum share and allocating resources to the ESF to tackle their structural challenges.
How does Cohesion Policy fit into the general framework of European policies?L.A.: With the new programming period 2014-20, Cohe-sion Policy is strongly linked to the European Semester. The ESF, for example, addresses the relevant country-specific recommendations in the areas of employment, social inclusion, education, and good governance. The Funds are now also linked to sound economic govern-ance via the so-called macroeconomic conditionalities. I would also like to stress the importance of public administration reform. The efficiency of public sector institutions is central to the life of all EU citizens, as they provide key services in areas such as health care, education, and social services. Good public administra-tions have an important role in ensuring a country’s economic competitiveness. Strengthening the institu-tional capacity of public administrations and public services – at national, regional and local levels – is, therefore, a key priority for the ESF.
Why are the Partnership Agreements so crucial?J.H.: The first Partnership Agreements with Member States have now been adopted, starting with Denmark in early May 2014. They set down the strategic direction for an optimal use of the European Structural and In-vestment Funds in tackling the crisis, restructuring the economy, and encouraging growth. Action is focused on a limited number of key investment priorities for the next six years. They form the basis for launching more than 300 national, regional and territorial coop-eration programmes. Our investments must be strategic – focusing on the real economy and sustainable growth. The coming months will be fully dedicated to ensuring that well-thought-out operational programmes are put in place to make the most efficient use of EU funding.
Why are cities so important?J.H.: With more than two-thirds of Europeans living in or around urban areas, our continent is the second
most urbanised in the world after Latin America. Our cities are determining our economic, social, and en-vironmental future. Policymakers at all levels must, therefore, make cities a key priority. Many policies at EU and national level are targeted at cities, but they need to be better integrated to work in one clear direction. To improve coordination between different levels of governance, policies, and sectors, I have proposed de-veloping an ‘EU Urban Agenda’ as a common roadmap linking all EU policies having an impact on cities – such as labour migration, employment, and housing – and providing concrete recommendations.
And the role of macro-regional strategies?J.H.: Working together to tackle common challenges – whether environmental, economic or security-relat-ed – makes sense for European regions. I have pushed the macro-regional approach, and last summer the Commission published its first evaluation. The study considered the existing Baltic Sea and Danube Region Strategies successful, as they have resulted in hundreds of new projects, joint policy objectives, and new net-works. Recently, the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region has been launched, revolving mainly around the opportunities of the maritime economy. It is important to focus on a few priorities with strong political backing and commitment if they are to have a real impact. � � http://europa.eu/!hJ86hR � http://europa.eu/!Jm43yy
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At the start of this new funding period (2014-20), the Commission adopted a Cohesion Report, providing a unique insight into the development of EU countries, regions and cities and how Cohesion Policy has changed to respond to new circumstances and challenges.
Cushioning the crisis’s blowThe EU has made an important contribution in reduc-ing regional economic disparities and has even been described as a “convergence machine” by the World Bank. The crisis, however, has had a deep impact. Re-gional economic disparities have stopped narrowing, while unemployment has increased rapidly in most EU Member States. Half of the employment gains since 2000 have been lost since the onset of the recession. Poverty and exclusion have also increased in the after-math of the crisis, leading to higher concentrations in many Western cities. To reduce public deficits, many Member States have slashed public investment. But Cohesion Policy has helped to cushion the blow – in nine Member States, Cohesion Policy now provides over half of all public investment.
In the 2007-13 period, Cohesion Policy made a big difference in people’s lives. It provided 5 million people with broadband access, 3.3 million people with an im-proved drinking water supply, and connected 5.5 mil-lion people’s homes to wastewater treatment facilities. According to the most recent figures, it created almost 600,000 jobs and supported close to 80,000 start-ups. It has invested in 25,800 km of roads and 2,700 km railway lines. It helped 5.7 million people find em-ployment and 8.6 million to obtain qualifications. It is estimated to have increased GDP by 2.1% a year on average in Latvia, 1.8% a year in Lithuania and 1.7% a year in Poland compared to what it would have been without Cohesion Policy.
Driving Europe 2020 investmentsCohesion Policy in this new funding period is the main EU source of investment for achieving the Europe 2020 Strategy’s growth and jobs agenda. It is part of the Eu-ropean Semester, taking on board the relevant country-specific recommendations endorsed by the Council. It
will invest more in the low-carbon economy, innova-tion, SMEs, quality employment, labour mobility, social inclusion, and core trans-European transport, energy and digital networks, as well as in education, training, skills, lifelong learning, and public administration re-forms. The policy has introduced new rules (ex-ante and macro-economic conditionality) to ensure that the right regulatory and macro-economic framework is in place for the policy to have a bigger impact.
Within the EU, there is a growing understanding and recognition of the role of good governance. With-out good governance, high growth rates and regional economic convergence cannot be achieved. Therefore, Cohesion Policy will now invest more in improving administrative capacity.
These changes, together with a stronger focus on results and performance, will ensure that Cohesion Policy can address disparities between regions, while contributing efficiently to achieving the Europe 2020 goals. � � http://europa.eu/!hj96Kf
A “CONVERGENCE MACHINE” FOR REDUCING REGIONAL DISPARITIESby Lewis Dijkstra, DG REGIO
Sixth Cohesion ForumInvestment for jobs and growthPromoting development and good governance in EU regions and cities
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VIEWS ONCOHESION POLICY 2014�2020Stakeholders at local, regional, national and European level give their views on and hopes for the reformed Cohesion Policy.
Cohesion Policy and its financial instruments have meant a lot to Swedish regions and municipalities. The strong self-governance in Sweden has ensured a strong commitment by the regional level to cohesion policies. Public opinion in Sweden is very much in favour of prioritising efforts combating climate change. Therefore, support is strong for earmarking investments in the areas of energy ef-ficiency and low carbon techniques. I find the EU’s Cohesion Policy to be well bal-anced, as it includes environmental, economic and social perspectives. This while being focused on the need of growth and prosperity in our European regions. With-out Cohesion Policy, the regional development work would be more self-centred, disregarding the global opportunities and benefits of a growing and thriving Europe.
ANDERS KNAPE – President, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
The Baltic Sea Region has a unique tradition of regional cooperation on various levels and topics. In 2009, the macro-regional EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region was adopted to further strengthen cooperation on common priorities. This is a great starting-point for the region’s transnational coopera-tion programme for the period 2014-20. Now we are looking forward to many new and interesting projects which will help to improve the Baltic Sea Region’s institutional capacities to boost innovation, to preserve its natural resources and to improve its accessibility.
RONALD LIESKE – Team Leader, Programme Management and Communication Unit, Baltic Sea Region Programmerr
The stronger requirements for cen-tral-local partnership working are a real boost to local authorities who want to be at the heart of the design and delivery of the next round. This is something we have been pushing for since the 2000-2006 programme. It will allow the funds to be tailored more effectively to the real needs of local areas.
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Cities act as catalysts for both opportunities and challenges and have a higher concentration of both, making them ideal testing grounds for the success of Cohe-sion Policy. Brussels is delighted both at the shift in policy towards urban affairs and at the fact that regional socioeconomic factors such as unemployment and education will now be taken into consideration, as opposed to the sole criterion of regional GDP, by nature a narrow measurement. The Brussels-Capital Region is rich in wealth production (GDP) but poor in terms of its population (income) and will now be able to almost double its commitment to tackling the challenges posed by the city’s economic, social and environmental polarisation.
VALENTIN GRAAS – Attaché, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
The new rules on regional investments for 2014-20 recognise the need to invest in urban Europe and involve cities in program-ming. The binding rules on Partnership Agreements support the involvement of cities in programming and delivery of the Funds. This recognises the need to have cities, the main drivers of economic growth and job creation, at the table when decisions about investing European funds are made. City leaders know what investments are needed on the ground. Member States that fail to tap that knowledge would be shooting themselves in the foot.
VANDA KNOWLES – Policy Director, EUROCITIESrr
Efforts to support an innovative and competitive economy and achieve a fair distribution of growth across all regions are allowing us to be effective in reducing the economic and social disparities, which are so widespread. Based on our experience, we are confi-dent that the programmes being run under Cohesion Policy have contributed to the development of the Podkarpackie province thanks, among other things, to the effective and well-thought-out process for their implementation, which lays particular emphasis on specialising in specific economic areas.
WŁADYSŁAW ORTYL – Marshall, Podkarpackie Voivodship, Poland
In the face of increasing poverty, exclusion and unemployment the Cohesion Funds are fast becoming the most important financial instrument for the social and economic development of the EU and the adoption of the new package contains some interesting oppor-tunities for the social sector and social policies even if it could have been more ambitious. Most importantly the ‘partnership principle’ which includes civil society organisations is warmly welcomed.
HEATHER ROY – President, Social Platform
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In the new programming period 2014-20, the urban dimension of the European Structural and Invest-
ment Funds has been enhanced through new measures and instruments:
-gional Development Fund directly target urban issues such as sustainable urban mobility, revitalisation of cities, and upgrading the research and innovation capacity in urban areas;
Fund should now be earmarked for investments that integrate different kinds of measures to tackle the par-ticular economic, environmental, climate and social challenges of urban areas;
-cated to fund innovative actions in the field of sus-tainable urban development;
-back on how the funds are being used on the ground;
been mainstreamed to all types of areas including cities;
has involved more than 500 European cities in net-working and exchange of experience since its creation in 2002.
A variety of initiativesOn top of the activities coordinated by DG REGIO, many EU policies include initiatives targeting either cities as actors or urban areas as places for implemen-tation, such as in the fields of Culture (the European Capitals of Culture), Energy and Climate Action (the Covenant of Mayors), Environment (the European Green Capital Awards), Transport or the Digital Agenda (Smart Cities and Communities Initiative).
A web portal has also been launched with relevant links on the range of EU programmes and initiatives concerned (see link below).
Given the diversity of these initiatives, Commission-er Johannes Hahn has initiated the debate at EU level for a more explicit ‘EU Urban Agenda’, which would help to consolidate and better coordinate the urban dimension of European policies. A Communication on ‘The urban dimension of EU policies – Consultation on an EU Urban Agenda’ was published in July 2014 to focus on how to take this EU Urban Agenda forward with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders. The Communication is now open for public consultation until 26 September. �
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‘Cities of tomorrow’ report � http://europa.eu/!Cy86JP
For the last 20 years, the Commission has been funding urban projects and activities in the framework of its Cohesion Policy. This started with the URBAN I and URBAN II Community Initiatives, and then has continued in the context of the Operational Programmes.
TOWARDS AN EU URBAN AGENDAby Corinne Hermant-de Callataÿ and Christian Svanfeldt, DG REGIO
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More than 5.5 million young people (aged 15-24 years) in the EU are currently unemployed. This is why the Commission is taking direct action to provide support for youth employment activation measures through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), in particular the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI).
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT HOW EUROPE IS HELPINGby Christine Zöllner, DG EMPL
In the last country-specific recommendations, most Member States were urged to take prompt action
to combat youth unemployment. In this context, the ESF and the YEI have a crucial role to play in supporting young people, including through the implementation of the Youth Guarantee scheme.
The ESF finances measures such as active labour market policies, vocational education reforms (in-cluding dual education), apprenticeship schemes, support for start-ups, etc.. Adequate resources are ensured via the so-called ‘ESF minimum share’ of the total Cohesion Policy envelope, which is set at 23.1% and amounts to more than €80 billion (cur-rent prices).
The YEI, worth a total of €6.4 billion (in current prices) – half of which comes from ESF national al-locations – is an additional, crucial tool in supporting and enhancing these efforts by concentrating on investing directly in young people ‘not in employ-ment, education or training’ (NEETs) aged below 25. Measures include the provision of traineeships, ap-prenticeships, and first-job experiences, as well as job and training mobility measures, start-up support for young entrepreneurs, quality vocational educa-tion and training, second-chance programmes, or recruitment subsidies.
Special measures to help the young now
The Commission is frontloading the YEI to ensure commitments are made in particular this year and
in 2015. Exceptionally, Member States can start im-plementing YEI-related measures as of 1 September 2013 and will be reimbursed when the programmes are approved. Those Member States choosing to pro-gramme the YEI as a dedicated YEI Operational Pro-gramme will benefit from quick adoption.
Bolstering employment for all
Member States are also encouraged to use the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to bolster employ-ment for all, including youth. Reinforcing ESF efforts, the ERDF contributes to enhancing the competitive-ness of the EU’s regions and creating employment op-portunities for tomorrow. For example, the ERDF can create and safeguard sustainable jobs by strengthening research and innovation, by focusing on key sectors for the generation of future jobs (such as ICTs and green jobs), and by supporting investment in SMEs as the main generator of jobs.
The next generation of Cohesion Policy pro-grammes – in particular, those supported by the ESIF and the YEI – will represent a vital financial tool to support measures in favour of youth employment. The Commission is working with the Member States on the Partnership Agreements and Operational Programmes, so that the ESIF can provide extensive and sustainable support to young people, with a view to ensuring a brighter future for generations to come. �
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USING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS TO DELIVER COHESION POLICYby Zach Hester, CEND
A key objective for 2014-20 is to leverage extra investment to deliver European policy objectives by making more use of financial instruments. Rachel Lancry, Deputy Head of DG REGIO’s ‘Financial Instruments and International Financial Institutions Relations’ Unit explains to Commission en Direct what this means for Cohesion Policy.
What are financial instruments and how can they help?Financial instruments come in a number of different forms, including loans, loan guarantees, equity, venture capital, and micro-finance. In the public policy context, they can deliver policy objectives more efficiently for certain types of investments and add value by attract-ing additional private and public funding, as well as expertise from financial institutions.
To what extent is Cohesion Policy already making use of financial instruments?During 2007-13, there has been a significant shift to-wards the use of financial instruments in Cohesion Pol-icy programmes. The estimated amount allocated from Structural Funds to venture capital, loan and guarantee funds for 1994-99 was €570 million, rising to €1.2 bil-lion for 2000-06 and to €8.36 billion (as of 31 December 2012) for 2007-13. Most of this support has been for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
What lessons can be learned, and how have these been taken into account for 2014-20?Previous experience demonstrates the need for a com-prehensive legislative framework and for capacity-build-ing for those working with these financial instruments. Balancing private sector objectives of maximising fi-nancial returns on investment with Cohesion Policy objectives of contributing to growth and jobs in specific Member States and regions can be a challenge!
The 2014-20 legislation for Cohesion Policy, there-fore, includes a dedicated section on financial instru-ments and offers flexibility for Member States and re-gions. It broadens the scope of financial instruments
to all thematic objectives and offers a range of imple-mentation options.
DG REGIO is coordinating with other Commission services in order to ensure synergies with EU-level sup-port under COSME, Horizon 2020, and the Connect-ing Europe Facility. Cooperation with the European Investment Bank group and other international finan-cial institutions will also help optimise use of financial instruments. Assistance and advisory services drawing on their expertise will be delivered as a consolidated service covering all European Structural and Invest-ment Funds. � � http://europa.eu/!cb38hW
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The Baltic Sea Region was the first to establish a macro-regional strategy, but other regions are now adopting this approach.
Did you know that the Baltic Sea is the young-est sea on our planet? It is also one of the
shallowest, with an average depth of 54 meters, which makes it a particularly vulnerable marine ecosystem. With eutrophication (see box) as one of the greatest threats, the challenge is to balance the opportunities for growth in the Baltic Sea Region while ensuring the protection of this sensitive sea. In 2009, the eight EU Member States around the Baltic Sea agreed to develop a strategy which would promote a more balanced de-velopment – the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.
The Strategy is based on the idea that common challenges are best tackled and opportunities better exploited – whether environmental, economic or social issues – in cooperation. The value of such an approach can be seen in the phasing out of phosphates in deter-gents through the flagship project in the priority area – led by Finland and Poland – of reducing to acceptable levels the nutrients entering the sea. On the develop-ment side, innovations concerning the environment and ecosystems are under way through the BONUS Bal-tic Sea Research and Development Programme.
Other regions follow the Baltic leadOther regions have since recognised the value of joining forces in a similar way. The EU Strategy for the Dan-
ube Region builds on the Baltic approach. Adopted in 2011, navigation on the Danube has been made easier through coordinated maintenance work. Flooding in the region is addressed with projects focusing on the most cost and ecologically effective measures for flood risk reduction.
The Danube Region is also strengthening its research and innovation base. In this context, the Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with DG REGIO, is working with the Danube Region experts as a pilot region, to coordi-nate national research and innovation strategies, boosting ‘smart specialisation’ at the Danube Region level.
Most recently, the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region was adopted in June 2014, also incor-porating much of the Western Balkans. It seeks to overcome fragmentation in road, rail and maritime infrastructure between countries, as well as build-ing an Adriatic-Ionian ‘brand’ for diversified tourism products targeting global travel customer groups. The Alpine Region – as a major natural resource and socio-economic core of Europe – has just started work on a similar initiative.
EU added value The approach has clear EU added value. Existing EU policies are reinforced across thematic sectors and
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�Mária Valéria bridge, across the Danube between Esztergom (Hungary) and Štúrovo (Slovakia) is being rebuilt with EU Cohesion Policy funds.
MACRO�REGIONAL STRATEGIESBRIDGING BORDERS AND SECTORSby Anna-Eveliina Louhivuori, DG REGIO
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EutrophicationEutrophication – or more precisely hypertrophication – is how an ecosystem responds to artifi cial or natural substances, such as nitrates
and phosphates, through fertilizers or sewage, entering an aquatic system. In the shallow Baltic Sea, this can lead to toxic algae blooms
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geographical border divides. The integrated approach encourages trans-topic work on such issues as climate action needs or support for a low-carbon economy. Trans-boundary work is also needed in such areas as an Integrated Maritime Policy, Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), Trans-European Energy Networks (TEN-E), and civil protection cooperation. We can only complete real European networks with the necessary interconnections and benefit from maritime resources sustainably by acting together.
Financing is provided by aligning policy, EU pro-grammes and financial instruments, and working close-ly with various international financial institutions. This year is particularly important for further developing these macro-regional strategies, as it marks the start of a new funding period. The participating countries will also further mobilise national, regional, local and private sector resources.
The approach invokes all the EU buzz-words – in-tegration, coordination, cooperation, multi-level gov-ernance, and partnership. The Common Provisions Regulation (1303/2013) of 17 December 2013 provides
the following definition of the approach: “an integrated framework endorsed by the European Council, which may be supported by the ESI Funds among others, to address com-mon challenges faced by a defined geographical area relating to Member States and third countries located in the same geographical area which thereby benefit from strengthened cooperation contributing to achievement of economic, social and territorial cohesion”.
To manage all of this, a Commission Report on the added value and governance of macro-regional strate-gies was adopted in June 2013 (see link below). The growing interdependencies of European countries ne-cessitate greater cooperation to address common prob-lems, and this needs to be managed well. It is clear that cooperation is an integral part of regional devel-opment. Solutions to common problems can be found – environmental issues, risk prevention, connectivity, migration – and potential benefits – smarter research, business link-ups, expanded markets and trade – can be made a reality. We must build on this work to make sure partners address jointly – and, therefore, more ef-fectively – the same issues. �
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EU Macro-Regional Strategies � http://europa.eu/!BB79bN
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region � http://balticsea-region-strategy.eu � http://europa.eu/!VN83xT
EU Strategy for the Danube Region � http://danube-region.eu � http://europa.eu/!FK44nR
EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region � http://europa.eu/!Tn44JK
Report concerning the added value of macro-regional strategies � http://europa.eu/!Ff97wT
Report concerning the governance of macro-regional strategies � http://europa.eu/!xh37WG
European Structural and Investment Funds � http://europa.eu/!xB43mx � http://europa.eu/!dk34UU
To contact the teams in DG REGIO, send an e-mail to: � [email protected] � [email protected] � [email protected]
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In May this year, the Digital Transformation Team (DG COMM, DGT and DIGIT) carried out an on-line poll to find out the main reasons why people interact with our organisation. The 107,000 responses from all around the world give us rich data about our customers and help set priorities when it comes to digital communication.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONSURVEY RESULTS SHOW WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS WANTby Nina Thompson-Williams, DGT
Main findings – 6 tasks dominate the results The wheel (opposite) shows 100% of the survey results. Each division represents one of 77 tasks or reasons peo-ple interact with the Commission – for example, fund-ing, contacting a staff member, etc.. This list was agreed collectively by all DGs through a series of 20 workshops run between February and March. Results of the poll show that there are six main reasons why people in-teract with the Commission (see below) and that by focusing on just 18 tasks we can meet the requirements of 50% of our customers.
Respondents were asked to choose their five main reasons for interacting with the Commission and to answer a series of profile questions (age, employment status, occupation, role, interest areas) to enable the results to be broken down in multiple ways.
Solid data we can act on with confidenceThe results showed huge consistency across all profiles, occupations, countries, and languages. This shows us that common navigation and labels will serve well the vast majority of our customers. It also underlines the need to coordinate our work across the Commission, and the Digital Transformation Team will be working in this direction over the coming months.
Stability of resultsAs the survey progressed, the voting trends showed that three of the six top tasks were clear leaders from day one. So the pattern of results was set soon after the survey was launched, and the probability that more respondents would bring in different results is infi-nitely small.
Internal survey – what the staff expectedJust after the poll closed, an internal survey was run from 27 May to 6 June, to find out what staff thought the results of the top tasks survey would be. This exercise could be described as an ‘empathy check’ to see how well we Commission staff know our custom-ers. With 668 respondents, the results were stable after 167 responses.
The internal survey had the same format as the external poll – based on the 77 tasks.
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5 EU strategy, political priorities
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7 Jobs, traineeships at the European Commission
8 Find a job in another EU country
9 EU news, announcements, press releases
10 Human rights, fundamental rights
11 Working in an EU country (rights, permits, benefi ts)
12 Order, download an EU publication
13 Track policy and law making process, updates
14 Statistics and forecasts
15 About the European Union (role, structure, how it works, origin)
16 Food and farming (production and safety)
17 Climate change, global warming
18 Regional, rural and urban development
19 Freedom of information (transparency, access to documents)
20 About the European Commission (role, structure, how it works)
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1 Funding, grants, subsidies
2 Working in an EU country (rights, permits, benefi ts)
3 Jobs, traineeships at the European Commission
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5 About the European Union (role, structure, how it works, origin)
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9 Consumer and passenger rights
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16 About the European Commission (role, structure, how it works)
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Gap between what staff and customers thinkComparing the two surveys shows that our organi-sation underestimates the importance of five of the tasks voted most important by people outside, and overestimates the importance of one – funding, grants, subsidies. We also strongly backed a task which was in fact low priority for customers – complaints to the Commission.
Positive newsWe can be greatly cheered by the results of the survey. They speak eloquently of the relevance of the Commis-sion in domains we care about, and shout out that, as far as our web presence is concerned, we have our cus-tomers’ backing to innovate within our own house. �
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REUSE AND COPYRIGHTTWO SIDES OF THE SAME COINby Klaudia Michalak-Palarz, OP
Why do we want others to reuse our work?Our projects are paid for by taxpayers, so in a certain way they belong to them. Reuse helps to create jobs and, in general, is good for the European economy. For example, innovative on-line services can be built on the basis of open data and reusable publications.
We are more transparent if we open for reuse. And, if our material can be reused, it circulates more widely and can reach more people.
If people want to use materials from a DG, should they ask or even pay?No. The general rule is that everybody can reuse Com-mission material, even for commercial purposes. This is what Commission Decision 2011/833/EU (see link below) on the reuse of Commission documents says. There are some exceptions (e.g. logos, software), but, in general, we should encourage reuse, and we have a legal obligation to allow it.
Under this policy, citizens and companies can re-use our materials free of charge and without having to request permission to do so. However, we can set conditions, such as the obligation to acknowledge the source or not to distort the original meaning and the non-liability of the Commission for any consequences stemming from reuse.
All DGs can – and should – contribute to the applica-tion of the above-mentioned Decision on reuse by mak-ing their publications reusable and their data available via the EU Open Data Portal (see link below).
What cannot be reused?We cannot give what we do not own, also if it is copyright.To avoid future reuse problems, we should only use mate-rials we own or for which we have the necessary licences.
So, make sure you have rights for everything. The best way to prepare for reuse is to foresee it already in our contracts, saying clearly that material (e.g. text, data, pictures, audio materials, videos) resulting from the contractor’s work belongs to the EU and can be reused.
If reuse is our goal, copyright is a tool to create the right environment for reuse. Copyright is important in your private life, but even more so when you prepare a publication at work – whether you publish a booklet, update a web page or publish data. Reuse is not the end of copyright!
Copyright is for music firms, it has nothing to do with us, right?No. Copyright may have a real impact on your life. If you find an interesting picture and post it on Facebook, you may be in trouble. Somebody may own the picture and may demand money for it.
Even more so in professional life, copyright should not be forgotten. If you prepare a publication or update the web page of your DG, you are not allowed to use material that does not belong to you.
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More information on copyrightYou will find more information on copyright in PubliCare
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If you need assistance, seek the Publications Office’s advice
by addressing your copyright questions to our mailbox:
The Publications Office regularly organises various types of
training sessions on copyright in order to raise staff awareness
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RIGHT_BAS, OP_COPYRIGHT and OP_WKS_COPYRIGHT.
PubliCare (information on copyright) � http://europa.eu/!jR33Yd
PubliCare (training courses) � http://europa.eu/!Bh33uq
So what is copyright, really?Copyright (©) is the author’s or the publisher’s exclu-sive right to exploit an original literary or artistic work. Most of our works are subject to copyright, whether or not this is explicitly stated.
The copyright of works created by EU staff as part of their duties belongs to the EU or to the entity for which they work, if it has a legal personality (e.g. Agencies).
Why is copyright important for us?When creating a work (a report, a leaflet, a web page, etc.), you may use elements which have been copy-righted by others. It is crucial to make sure that you have all the necessary rights to use them. If you do not have the rights, the owner may take you to court and demand compensation.
For example, you have acquired a picture to be used in a printed publication (English edition), and you also use it in an e-book edition or in the French version of the same work, or upload the picture on the social media you manage. If you do so without permission, the provider can claim compensation. The same applies if you use a picture from a ‘free-pictures site’ on the internet and you do not follow its (often confusing) terms of use carefully. They may state that the picture is only available for personal use.
If you collaborate with a contractor to prepare or publish a work, or you want to publish a work deliv-ered by a contractor, be sure you sign sound contracts with appropriate clauses concerning copyright and other intellectual property rights. A model direct service con-tract is available on the DG BUDG website – see in par-ticular Articles I.8, II.10 and the Annexes, and the Note on Intellectual Property Rights (see links below).
What do we have to decide on regarding copyright when publishing?Choose the elements you want to incorporate into the work and check the copyright status of each of them. You can use them freely if they belong to the EU or to the body you work for, or if you have acquired rights which allow you to use them the way you intend to.
Think with the future in mind and consider rights from the beginning. Elements not belonging to you
will create problems for reuse in the future. Graphical elements are often risky, for example. If you don’t own them, you should clearly say so with a copyright notice, stating: the picture on page X belongs to… Don’t be afraid of long copyright notices, a long list is better than incomplete information. If you have no copyright for parts of a document, for example, an illustration, you must clearly say so.
Please remember, if you prepare content for pub-lishing, the main responsibility for copyright matters lies with you.��
More information on reuse and open dataCommission Decision � http://europa.eu/!tY64Bp
EU Open Data Portal � http://open-data.europa.eu
PubliCare (reuse and open data) � http://europa.eu/!Nd36Rf
Recommendations for IPR contract provisions
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Do you work on publication projects? Do you need to create an app for your communication campaign? Are you responsible for open data in your DG? Or maybe you are not sure about the copyright in relation to a brochure you are planning to publish through an external contractor? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, your first port of call should be PubliCare – an internal EU website containing detailed information about all the services of the Publications Office.
Traditional publishingIf you need to publish a report, information leaflets, posters or any other traditional paper-based publica-tions, you can entrust the whole process or some parts of it to the Publications Office. PubliCare explains in detail how to do it, guiding you step by step through the process, from the introduction of the request for services to the delivery of the final product.
Electronic publishingIf you need to create a flipping book for your website or a snappy app for your communication campaign and you don’t know where to start, PubliCare can help as well. It contains a wealth of information about e-publishing services in general, and it also explains how the Publications Office can assist you in imple-menting your electronic publishing project.
And it doesn’t stop there…Since publishing processes can be quite complicated and difficult to understand for non-specialists, one of the aims of PubliCare is to explain in simple lan-guage how to ensure that your publication project runs smoothly from beginning to end. So if you wonder what ‘DOI’ is, why everyone is talking about ‘print on
demand’ or why ‘metadata’ are so important for the success of your publication project, PubliCare has all the answers.
Keeping up to dateThe world of publishing is constantly evolving. So, if you want to keep abreast of the latest developments both in the industry and in the Publications Office, you can do so by regularly checking PubliCare for news and training seminars or by subscribing to our RSS feeds.
Talk to usPubliCare gives a detailed overview of all the services offered by the Publications Office and it aims to answer as many questions about EU publishing as possible. But even the most informative website cannot replace direct contacts with the experts. Therefore, in each section of PubliCare, you will find names and e-mail addresses of colleagues from the Publications Office who are ready to help with more specialist queries. And, of course, if you have general questions or comments concerning PubliCare or the Publications Office, you can always write to us (see functional mailbox below).�� � [email protected].
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The Commission has proposed to the European Parliament and Council a Directive to mandate Members States to install a minimum number of recharging points, to ensure that the electric vehicles market can expand.
ELECTRO�MOBILITYBE PART OF ‘GREEN eMOTION’ DEMO PROJECTby Dorothée Coucharrière, DG MOVE
Electric vehicles are the favourite candidates for urban mobility and short distances. They do
not produce local emissions and therefore improve the quality of air. Electrically powered motors do not produce noise, improving the health and life quality of our citizens.
Expert assessment shows that more than 90% of the charging will be done at home or at work. Being able to charge an electric vehicle at work could dou-ble its effective range, significantly reducing ‘range anxiety’ – one of the main barriers to purchase of an electric vehicle.
‘Green eMotion’ – a joint effortPart of the European Green Cars Initiative (EGCI) launched within the context of the European Recov-ery Plan, the ‘Green eMotion’ project supports the achievement of the EU’s ambitious climate goals, such as reducing CO2 emissions by 60% by 2050. EGCI sup-ports the research and development of road transport solutions that have the potential to achieve sustainable, groundbreaking results in the use of renewable and non-polluting energy sources.
As the ‘Green eMotion’ consortium, 43 partners from industry, the energy sector, electric vehicle man-ufacturers, municipalities, universities and research institutions have joined forces to explore the basic conditions that need to be fulfilled for Europe-wide electro-mobility.
Vice-President Siim Kallas officially launched the ‘Green eMotion’ project at a high-level kick-off event in Brussels on 31 March 2011. To run for four years, the project is preparing the foundations for the mass deployment of Europe-wide electro-mobility. The pro-
ject has a total budget of €42 million, with €24 million in EU co-financing.
Electro-mobility at the CommissionAs part of the ‘Green eMotion’ project, in June 2012, two electric charging points were installed at rue De Mot 24 and 28 with a dedicated RFID (Radio-frequen-cy identification) card, charging an electric vehicle in about three hours (fast charging).
To promote the use among staff, an electric vehi-cle car-sharing demonstration project is running until March 2015. The overall objective is to support – with evidence – the policy driven by the Commission on alternative fuel vehicles. ‘Green eMotion’ provides two electric vehicles at rue De Mot 24 and 28. Cars can be reserved through an electronic platform available on smartphones. All Commission staff can use the cars if it is strictly for work purposes, limited in time, and benefits the project by gathering data on use patterns. � � http://www.greenemotion-project.eu/about-us/index.php
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This year’s DIGIT ICT Conference on 18 November in Brussels will look at how innovation can help administrations face the challenges of performance and keep up with technological progress. One of the keynote speakers, Wil van der Aalst, distinguished Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and Scientific Director of the Data Science Center Eindhoven, tells us about how to use big data and process mining to improve business processes.
BIG DATA AND PROCESS MINING MINE YOUR OWN BUSINESSby Denislava Simeonova, DG DIGIT
What is process mining?Process mining helps organisations to discover, moni-tor and improve real processes by extracting knowl-edge from event logs. Data is collected from all kinds of systems and analysed to see the deviations from the standard procedures and where the bottlenecks are. This helps to improve processes.
What is important to know about the process mining technique?Documenting processes in the traditional way is very open-ended and ‘harmless’ because people can say whatever they want. If you use process mining, you are analysing the processes based on actual data, con-fronting people with real facts and forcing them to leave their comfort zone.
Currently, we are working with several Dutch hos-pitals to analyse patient treatment data. We are looking at when doctors and medical staff deviate from the standard procedures, comparing the costs incurred and the number of incidents. The results show that if people deviate from the procedures more frequently this leads to more incidents (fatalities) and higher costs.
What public sector organisations are already using process mining?The public sector is not very different from the bank-ing sector. Process orientation is everywhere – more than 80% of Dutch municipalities are using software to model their processes. But there are very few or-ganisations that are actually using Business Process Management technology to directly implement those processes.
The power of process mining is that it is based on facts. It is not just an IT toy. It has the potential to bridge the classical gap between managers/domain experts and IT people – insight based on real data can bring these two groups together. You should first understand what is really happening before thinking of beautiful ways to do it better.
How can we integrate process mining with the classical business modelling?Process mining is fact driven, which makes it very dif-ferent from other techniques. Of course, the classical problems remain – you should have a process owner who is responsible for a particular process and you still need to make a decision, no matter what technology you are using. However, the fact that these days you can base the decision-making on facts changes the dis-cussion completely.
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I’ve been in many discussions where a part of the group says the problem is in that part of the process and others say the problem is elsewhere. And when you show the execution of the process visually – for example, what actually happened last year – this typi-cally makes the discussion easier.
How do we keep the meaning of data synchronised with the different transformations throughout the process?If, for instance, a company builds a car, it makes a bill of materials, as it is composed of an engine, tyres and other parts. If you think about businesses where the product is actually data, you also need a bill of materi-als. These are the data that you need to be able to make the decision. We call it product-driven workflow design – when you design the information product and then automatically derive the workflow from it.
Are there some general guidelines for modelling processes?It starts from data and analysis of data and then a process model is created which is different from the classical way of first modelling the control flow and then adding data to it. People typically do not model everything and keep models up to date, because it is a lot of work. My current view is that models are valu-able if they are connected to the actual event data of the processes taking place. And this is very different from the typical practice – people often spend months creating Business Process Management diagrams, and once it is on paper nobody cares. No matter what mod-elling notation you use, if you make a model and do not confront it with real data, it becomes useless and unrelated to reality. My advice is to breathe life into these models by maintaining them and linking them to real-event data every day.
Take navigation devices. Why do people use them? Because they’re not a static map, but a map you use every day – showing you where the traffic jams are, advising you to turn left or right – so there is a direct link between current reality and the models.
Another example – let’s suppose that you have an activity and the customer is giving more information than you were asking for. In the traditional system, you don’t know what to do with this information. You say to the customer: “No, you cannot tell me this now” (or you will record the info for a further use that might never come). If you look at the prototype systems we are implementing, it’s different. People can provide data at any moment about the activities being executed at that point, but they can also choose to skip some steps – and at each point, the state of the process is recomputed, based on the actual data. For example, if you have a sequence of activities – A, B, C – after executing activ-ity A, you may not need to execute activity B, because you talked to somebody and the person provided more information or the information is already available in the system.
Used together with traditional process documenting techniques, process mining is an incredible eye-opener and makes the results of the analysis more accurate. �
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Responding to significant changes in Ukraine which put the Association Agreement with the EU back on track, the Commission has created a Support Group for Ukraine (SGUA). In the framework of the Commission’s ‘Active Senior’ Programme, recently retired Commission officials are welcome to contribute their expertise to the Support Group.
SUPPORTING UKRAINEA HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY AND CHALLENGEcompiled by Lothar Ehring, SGUA
The Support Group was created on 9 April 2014, with the objective of providing a focal point for
the Commission’s support to Ukraine in its transition and in implementing the Association Agreement as a blueprint for modernisation and reforms in the country. The SGUA is also mobilising EU Member State expertise and enhancing coordination with other donors and the international financial institutions.
Supporting political and economic reformsIn view of Ukraine’s free and democratic choice to be closely associated with the EU, President Barroso stated that the “decision to create a Support Group will ensure that the Ukrainian authorities have all the support they need in undertaking the political and economic reforms that are necessary to stabilise the country. Our common goal is to have a democratic, independent and prosperous Ukraine.”
The SGUA will have over 40 officials (Commission officials, Seconded National Experts, and other catego-ries of staff), is headed by Péter Balás, an Adviser ‘Hors Classe’, and is administratively attached to DG DEVCO. It reports to the President of the Commission and the High Representative/Vice-President under the guidance of the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle.
The Support Group is based in Brussels, with staff travelling to Ukraine as necessary. Ukraine is setting up central coordination structures to oversee the im-plementation of the broad reform programme as well as the Association Agreement with the EU. By way of a separate Commission decision in the future, the man-date of the SGUA might be extended to include also Georgia and Moldova which also made the sovereign choice of being associated with the EU.
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Coordinated effortsAs a result of the visit to Kyiv in March by Commis-sioners Füle and Lewandowski, who were accompanied by representatives of various line services, the Com-mission and the European External Action Service de-veloped jointly with the Ukrainian Government the European Agenda for Reform (see link below). It spells out Ukraine’s short and medium-term reform needs and connects them with on-going or planned EU sup-port actions, notably related to the implementation of the Association Agreement – including a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. A donor coordination platform is also being established to help mobilise re-sources and expertise from the broader international environment to support implementation of the reform priorities.
A high-level meeting took place on 8 July to coor-dinate and implement the international support for Ukraine, chaired by Commissioner Füle and Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, and with the EU Member States, other donor countries, international organisations and financial institutions as well as Ukrainian civil society participating. The discus-sion focused notably on donor coordination and the roadmap towards a donors’ conference to be held at a later point in time. DG DEVCO organised the suc-cessful meeting, and now the SGUA is handling the subsequent steps.
Short and medium-term prioritiesThe Support Group’s work will be based on the ‘Euro-pean Agenda for Reform’, a document conceived as a living document that will be updated to take stock of progress and reflect evolving priorities. It lists a broad range of areas and activities, covering all important aspects of the country’s reform and transformation, namely political reforms, economic support, justice and home affairs (including the fight against corruption), industry/enterprise (including regulations), energy, transport, trade and customs, agriculture, education, and scientific cooperation.
In the immediate short term (until end 2014), the SGUA’s task is to identify and coordinate with the
Ukrainian authorities – while benefiting from input from line services, EU Member States and other interna-tional donors – the technical assistance Ukraine needs to stabilise the country’s fragile financial, economic and political situation, to plan and implement reforms to boost growth, and to identify reform priorities and advance the reforms necessary to ensure that immedi-ate benefits can be obtained from the EU offer through the Association Agreement and Visa Liberalisation Ac-tion Plan.
In the medium term (from 2015), the goal of the Support Group will be to further support Ukraine in developing and implementing comprehensive reform programmes.
Opportunities to help for recently retired officialsIn addition to mobilising active staff, the Commission Decisions of 9 April provide for the Commission’s own ‘Active Senior’ Programme being used to mobilise the expertise of recently retired members of staff. The SGUA accordingly issued a call for the expression of interest, which retired officials interested in contributing are invited to consult (see link below). The SGUA can be contacted by e-mail (see functional mailbox below). �
DG DEVCO page on Ukraine with links to the European Agenda for Reform
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Call for expression of interest for retired officials
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Trois musées de Luxembourg offrent un programme varié, allant des maîtres anciens à l’art contemporain en passant par le romantisme et le pop art. Derniers jours de trois expositions temporaires à ne pas manquer.
DERNIERS JOURS ART TOUS AZIMUTS A LUXEMBOURGpar Stefan Villanueva Peramo, CEND
Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, la notion de des-truction a joué différents rôles dans le champ
artistique: comme signe de rébellion, de protestation, ou comme composant essentiel du processus de créa-tion lui-même.
Au MUDAM, l’exposition Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950 propose un panorama de cet élé-ment central de la culture contemporaine. Rassemblant environ 90 œuvres de près de 40 artistes dont Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely ou Andy Warhol et des médias aussi variés que la peinture, la gravure ou la vidéo, l’exposition présente certaines des multiples manières dont les artistes ont considéré et invoqué la destruction dans leur travail.
Si la notion de destruction parcourt l’histoire de l’art dans son ensemble, elle est devenue, depuis le début de l’ère atomique, un fait de culture omniprésent. Ce thème de la destruction est également un moyen de remettre en cause les institutions muséales, voire l’idée même du sens de l’art. Ainsi, au cœur de nombre d’œuvres exposées, indépendamment de leur période de production, de leur médium ou de leur intention, se trouve le désir de contrôler la destruction ou de mettre en valeur la relation constitutive qui unit création et destruction.
Passion royaleDans une veine plus classique, la Villa Vauban propose Une passion royale pour l’art.
Cette exposition réunit une des collections d’art les plus importantes du XIXe siècle. Appartenant à l’origine à Guillaume II (1792-1849), roi des Pays-Bas et grand-duc de Luxembourg à partir de 1840, et à son épouse la tsarevna Anna Pavlovna (1795-1865), elle fut mise aux enchères et dispersée après le décès du monarque.
Grâce à une sélection de peintures du Guerchin, de Melzi, Murillo, Rubens et bien d’autres, l’exposition of-fre une coupe transversale de l’histoire de l’art européen depuis le XVIe siècle et ouvre une fenêtre fascinante sur la vie et les passions d’un couple royal du XIXe siècle qui, par son engagement pour l’art, sut marquer son époque bien au-delà de son domaine de souveraineté.
Peintures hollandaise et belgeAvec l’exposition Un voyage romantique: chefs d’œuvre de la collection Rademakers, le Musée national d’histoire et d’art propose de découvrir des chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture hollandaise et belge du XIXe siècle.
Paysages estivaux et hivernaux, vues urbaines, natures mortes, portraits ou encore peintures de genre, invitent les visiteurs à découvrir les arcanes de la peinture romantique. Mouvement européen du XIXe siècle considérant des émotions intenses telles que l’appréhension, l’horreur, la terreur et la crainte comme d’authentiques sources d’inspiration, le ro-mantisme mena à de nouvelles catégories esthétiques telles que le sublime et le pittoresque. Marqué par des caractéristiques nationales spécifiques, le courant est devenu le véhicule de la formation d’une identité na-tionale.
Cette exposition propose notamment des œuvres de B.C. Koekkoek, Christiaan Kannemans ou encore Jacob Abels; artistes représentatifs d’une mouvance en réaction à la Révolution industrielle et en révolte contre les normes politiques et sociales des Lumières. � � www.mudam.lu/ � www.villavauban.lu/ � www.mnha.public.lu/
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Au cœur de La Haye, le musée Mauritshuis a réouvert ses portes cet été, après deux années de travaux.
LE MAURISTHUIS FAIT PEAU NEUVEpar Stefan Villanueva Peramo, CEND
Le Mauritshuis, surnommé la «boîte à bijoux» par les Néerlandais, offre une représentation de la
quintessence de l’âge d’Or néerlandais et flamand. Sa réouverture permet de découvrir un nouvel ac-
crochage de sa riche collection qui compte des œuvres de Jan Steen, des paysages de van Ruisdael, des portraits de Rubens et les célèbres Leçon d’anatomie du docteur Tulp de Rembrandt ou Jeune Fille à la perle de Vermeer. «La Jeune Fille à la perle est enfin de retour à la maison, là où elle est la plus belle», déclare Emilie Gordenker, directrice du musée. En effet, durant les deux années de rénovation, la toile de Vermeer n’a cessé de voyager, aidant au financement des travaux. «Il y a quelque chose de très spécial à propos de cette toile, qui ressemble d’une certaine manière au Mauritshuis, c’est petit et intime», affirme-t-elle.
Le Mauristhuis possède également la Vue de Delft, ville natale de Vermeer, considérée par Marcel Proust comme «le plus beau tableau du monde» et qu’il évoque dans la Recherche du temps perdu.
Un nouvel espace d’expositionLe bâtiment du XVIIe siècle ainsi que la gouden zaal – la salle dorée – du XVIIIe siècle et ses 15 peintures monu-mentales de Pellegrini ont été rénovés et le Mauritshuis a doublé sa surface d’exposition en ouvrant dans un bâtiment art déco une salle dédiée aux expositions temporaires. Ce nouvel espace de la «boîte à bijoux» présentera les œuvres majeures de la Frick Collection, de février à mai 2015. L’institution new-yorkaise prêtera une trentaine d’œuvres du XIIIe au XIXe siècle telles que la Flagellation du Christ de Cimabue ou encore le Cheval blanc de John Constable, mais également des œuvres de Van Eyck, Memling, Reynolds et Gainsbo-rough, artistes peu représentés aux Pays-Bas.
Le Mauritshuis souhaite maintenant devenir le prin-cipal centre de connaissances dans le domaine de la pein-ture du siècle d’Or hollandais et proposera ateliers, jour-nées familiales et conférences pour une grande variété de publics. Une belle occasion de voyager. � � www.mauritshuis.nl
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Festival CinEast9-26 octobre, Luxembourg
Pour sa 7e édition, le festival CinEast rend à nouveau hommage au cinéma des pays d’Europe centrale et orientale, et présente surtout des productions récentes de ces pays, dont plusieurs autour du thème «Si près, si loin – 25 ans après la chute du mur».CinEast, c’est aussi bien plus que des films. Des concerts, des expositions et des soirées gastronomiques sont éga-lement au programme du festival.Venez découvrir le cinéma et les cultures de l’autre par-tie de l’Europe, dans divers lieux au Luxembourg du 9 au 26 octobre. � � www.cineast.lu
Rik Wouters. Pièces majeuresJusqu’en décembre 2017,
Maison échevinale, Malines
Rik Wouters, peintre et sculpteur belge considéré comme un précurseur direct de l’expressionnisme, a laissé un ensemble d’oeuvres superbe. Décédé en 1916, à l’âge de 33 ans, il a fait preuve d’un talent moderniste exceptionnel. Le Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts d’Anvers (KMSKA) détient une grande partie de ses oeuvres - 19 sculptures, 26 tableaux et 55 oeuvres sur papiers.Cette collection peut actuellement être admirée à la Maison échevinale de Malines, ville natale du peintre, en raison de travaux de réaménagement du musée anversois. L’ensemble est exposé dans cinq salles thématiques: nus féminins, vues champêtres, sujets du quotidien, natures mortes et portraits. � � http://toerisme.mechelen.be/fr/3371/content/8831/index.html
Les abeilles en villeJusqu’au 5 octobre, Luxembourg
La Ville de Luxembourg a mis en place un circuit pédestre sur l’abeille composé de 12 points d’infor-mation permettant de mieux connaître ces insectes indispensables à la survie de tout être vivant. Une ruche sur le toit d’un bâtiment, un hôtel pour abeilles sauvages, des plates-bandes avec une biodiversité in-comparable: voilà quelques aventures qui attendent les promeneurs sur ce circuit.Le 28 septembre à 15 h 00, le Musée national d’his-toire naturelle propose également une visite guidée. Après une introduction par un expert et une visite de l’exposition «Faszinatioun Beien», les participants mettent leur combinaison d’apiculteur et rendent visite aux ruches de l’Abbaye de Neumünster, ins-tallées sur les terrasses le long de l’Alzette. � � https://www.ccrn.lu/Culture/CCRN/Les-abeilles-de-l-Abbaye
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ACROSS 01 Synonyme d’hivernal
03 Violoniste et compositeur vénitien
05 Chanteur et guitariste du groupe The Black Keys
07 Première personne à traverser la Manche en avion
08 Malédiction ecclésiastique
11 Lieu de l’assassinat de l’archiduc François-Ferdinand
d’Autriche
13 Auteur de l’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être14 Festival de musique, organisé en août à Budapest
depuis 1993
18 Monnaie nationale de la Hongrie
19 Appareil servant à la distillation
20 Poète belge, auteur des Villes tentaculaires21 Consortium d’entreprises ferroviaires entre la France, la
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DOWN: 01 WEBER - 02 DAVIS - 03 MUDAM - 04 ZURICH - 08 SMYRNA - 09 GREFFE - 10 JAVA - 12 SEPPBLATTER - 14 ROUSSEFF - 17 FELLINI - 18 ZAVENTEM - 19 VLATAVA -
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DOWN02 Synonyme d’ermite
04 Spiritueux, titre d’un tableau de Van Gogh
06 Plus longue bataille de la Première Guerre Mondiale
09 Dieu de la discorde dans la mythologie nordique
10 Corde la plus aiguë d’un instrument à cordes et à manche
12 Prix Nobel de physique en 2013
14 Spécialité culinaire croate composée de feuilles de chou
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Europe and its regions
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01 How many regions* are there in the EU?a. 273
b. 335
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02 What is the total amount of EU Cohesion Policy funds for 2014-20?a. €745.7 billion
b. €351.8 billion
c. €244.6 billion
03 How many members does the Committee of the Regions have?a. 301
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04 Where was the fi rst macro-regional strategy established?a. the Baltic Sea Region
b. the neighbouring regions of Belgium, Ger-many and the Netherlands
c. the Adriatic Sea Region
05 What is an EGTC?a. European Green Transport Committee
b. European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation
c. Emergency Groups for Territorial Crisis
06 What is the extended name of the Open Days, the major Regional Policy event held every year in Brussels?
a. European Week of Regions and Cities
b. Subsidiarity Days
c. EU-Regio Open Days
07 Which is the EU’s most populated region*, with almost 12 million inhabitants?a. Andalucia
b. Lombardia
c. Ile-de-France
08 Which is the EU’s least populated region*?a. Åland
b. Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste
c. Ionia Nisia
09 Which is the region* with the highest gross domestic product per inhabitant?a. Luxembourg
b. Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
c. Inner London
10 What is the rough share of the EU budget dedi-cated to regional policy?a. one third
b. one quarter
c. half
ANSWERS: 1.a – 2.b – 3.b – 4.a – 5.b – 6.a – 7.c – 8.a – 9.c – 10.a
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HISTOIRE EN IMAGES ERASMUS MUNDUSby Jessica Bosseaux, CEND
2004Erasmus Mundus is laun-ched. In the first year, 19 Erasmus Mundus Mas-ters Courses, together in-volving over 90 European higher education institu-tions are selected.These Courses award the first 140 Erasmus Mundus scholarships to students from 52 different countries
to come to the EU and study an integrated Master’s course at two or more of the consortium universities.
The first Erasmus Mundus graduates complete their programmes.Regional ‘windows’ are introduced: they use the coop-eration budget to provide additional EMMC scholar-ships for certain regions, particularly Asia, the Western Balkans, and other neighbouring countries.
The Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window is launched. This uses external cooperation budget to fund new types of partnerships between universities from Europe on the one hand and specific regions or countries on the other. Partnerships send and host stu-dents at a range of levels, as well as staff.
2009Phase II of Erasmus Mundus is launched, expanding on the suc-cess of Phase I in a range of areas:
Joint Doctoral Programmes (3-4 years) are introduced. Like the Masters, candidates carry out research in dif-ferent institutions within the consortium and receive a joint or multiple degree. Scholarships are now also available for students from the EU. The External Cooperation Window model for partner-ships is maintained within the programme as Action 2.
2010The 10,000th Master’s student is awarded a scholarship.
2013The selection of projects includes the 2,000th higher education organisation to join the programme.Over ten years, over 65,000 students and staff from over 170 countries have been awarded scholarships or grants. The top 20 countries are India, Russia, China, Brazil, Ukraine, Serbia, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico, Tu-nisia, USA, Morocco, Pakistan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Algeria, and Moldova. � � http://europa.eu/!yV49QM
The Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association is set up.
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Rédaction: Matteo Manzonetto, Michael Scheerer - Stagiaire: Sabrina Fredj, Alice Siniscalchi
Mise en page & Cend en ligne: Marcelo Contreras - Courrier des lecteurs: Eimear O’Kelly
Commission en direct est édité par l’unité de Communication, DG HR D.3 Chef d’unité: Norman Jardine
Adresse : CE-SC11, 01/18 Télécopieur: 02 299 92 85
Courrier des lecteurs: [email protected]
Envoi de la publication aux pensionnés: [email protected] ISSN : 1830-5598 - Cette publication n’engage pas juridiquement la Commission.
ACCÈS À COMMISSION EN DIRECT EN LIGNE
Personnel actif: http://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu OP et retraités: https://myintracomm-ext.ec.europa.euAutres institutions et agences (également EEAS): http://myintracomm.ec.testa.eu
Rédacteur en chef: Zach Hester Tél. : 02 296 9617 – Secrétaire de rédaction: Dominique Labourdette
Rédaction: Matteo Manzonetto, Michael Scheerer, Jessica Bosseaux – Stagiaires: Mathilde Maughan, Stefan Villanueva Peramo
Mise en page & Cend en ligne: Marcelo Contreras
Commission en direct est édité par l’unité de Communication, DG HR D.3 Chef d’unité: Norman Jardine
Adresse: CE-SC11, 01/18 Télécopieur: 02 299 92 85
Courrier des lecteurs: [email protected]
Envoi de la publication aux pensionnés: [email protected] ISSN 1830-5598 (version imprimée) – ISSN 1977-9259 (PDF) – ISSN 1977-9259 (EPUB)
Cette publication n’engage pas juridiquement la Commission.
ACCÈS À COMMISSION EN DIRECT EN LIGNE
Personnel actif: https://myintracomm.ec.europa.eu OP et retraités: https://myintracomm-ext.ec.europa.eu
Autres institutions et agences (également EEAS): http://myintracomm.ec.testa.eu
Silvia Imarisio has worked in DG
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Lewis Dijkstra is Deputy Head of DG REGIO’s Economic Analysis Unit. He is the editor and one of the main authors of the Cohesion Re-ports, working clo-sely with Eurostat, DG JRC, the European Environment Agency, OECD, World Bank, and academia. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Plan-ning from Rutgers University.
Denislava Simeonova joi-ned DG DIGIT’s Communication Unit in 2013 and is working to improve internal communica-tion. She is helping to organise the agenda for the DIGIT ICT 2014 conference ‘Digital Now!’ Prior to joining the Commis-sion, she has worked as content manager and web analyst.
Lothar Ehring is Assistant to the Head to the Support Group for Ukraine. Until mid-2014, he was Assistant to DG TRADE’s Deputy Director-General, re-sponsible for WTO and legal af-fairs, trade strategy and defence, and bilateral trade relations with the rest of Europe, Central Asia and North America.
Christine Zöllner works in DG EMPL’s Coordination Unit for the European Social Fund. She worked previous-ly for the French Ministry of Inte-rior and also gai-ned experience in the private sector
in Slovakia.
Dorothée Coucharrière is a po-licy officer at DG MOVE, where she deals with electro-mobility and inno-vation. Prior to joining the Commis-sion, she first worked for the French National Assembly and then for different companies in the energy sector. Dorothée holds two Masters degrees in Public Administration and in Comparative Legal Science.
A n n a - E v e l i i n a Louhivuori is a trainee in DG REGIO’s Competence Centre Macro-regions and European Territorial Cooperation. She will de-fend her dissertation on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region at the University of Helsinki in autumn 2014.
Robert Bojdak is a coordinator for Interinstitutional Relations at the Publications Office. He joined the Com-mission in 2008, af-ter having worked at Penguin Books in London. He holds a post-graduate de-gree in Digital Media Management.
Corinne Hermant-de Callataÿ and Christian Svanfeldt are policy officers res-ponsible for urban development in DG REGIO. They wrote the ‘Cities of tomor-row’ report in 2011, focusing on the chal-lenges faced by Euro-pean cities.
Giovanni Palmarini works in the Intranet team of DG JRC’s Com-munication Unit and takes part in the Unit’s activities to promote the role of science in the European context.
Claire Morel est en charge de la dimension internationale du pro-gramme «Erasmus+», dans l’unité internationale de la DG EAC, et suit les dia-logues sur les politiques de formation et d’enseigne-ment supérieur, notam-ment avec les pays du voisinage.
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N i n a T h o m p -son-Williams is a DGT web editor and member of the Digital Trans-formation Team, working on stra-tegy and commu-nication regarding the top tasks iden-tification process and the project’s next phase – buil-ding the common architecture.
Klaudia Michalak- Palarz works in the Publica-tions Office’s Front Office team. Her main domain is PubliCare, a website with information and advice for those wanting to publish with the Office. In her previous life, in Poland, she worked as a journalist and translator of literature.
Staff Forum with President BarrosoThursday, 2 October, 10.00-11.30,
Press Room, BERL, Brussels
President Barroso will hold a Staff Forum in Brussels, with videoconference links to Luxembourg and Ispra, to discuss achievements and challenges in key policy areas. Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič will also take questions on staff policy issues.Each DG and Service is allocated a number of places, and only those on the confirmed participants list will have access to the Forum in person.Other staff can watch via webstreaming on My Intra-Comm.
The EKIDEN 2014 MarathonRun and help combat poverty in the EUSaturday, 18 October, 13:00,
King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels
Get involved! We count on you for another memorable event and demonstration of solidarity!For last year’s EKIDEN, we raised more than €10,000 to support ‘Les Restos du Coeur-Bruxelles’. The projects to be funded this year are presented on the GIVE EUR-HOPE website.Not a runner? Contact the GIVE EUR-HOPE mailbox and find out what else you can do to help! � www.giveeurhope.eu
(Margarita Savova-Peyrebrune, Michel Gasquard)
Balades guidées à vélo15-19 septembre, Bruxelles
Parmi les temps forts de la Semaine de la mobilité – 16 au 22 septembre –, l’OIB organise des balades guidées à vélo chaque jour de la semaine au départ de cinq bâtiments: Berlaymont, Beaulieu 5, Genève 6, Luxembourg 46, Madou. Un contrôle technique de votre deux-roues sera en outre proposé gratuitement. Enfin, l’OIB tiendra un stand d’information dans ces mêmes bâtiments pour répondre à toutes vos questions concernant la mobilité.Plus de précisions concernant les horaires et inscrip-tions paraîtront dans l’édition de septembre de Concrete. � [email protected]
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Depression and its consequences for private and professional lifeFriday, 10 October, 12:00-14:30,
Philippe Le Bon, Brussels
According to the World Health Organisation, by 2020, depression will be the second biggest health burden. On World Mental Health Day, the Medical Service Brussels will take the opportunity to raise awareness about depression and mental health at work through a lunchtime conference. A team of high-level specialists will cover the topic and address questions from the audience. Keep an eye on My IntraComm/Events for more details.
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DIGIT organised bythe Directorate-General for InformaticsEuropean Commission
DIGIT’s annual internal conference
for staff of the Commission,
other EU institutions and agencies.
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ICT2014Conference
transform | secure | innovate
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http://ec.europa.eu/digit-ict
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